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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to harm your opponent's positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.