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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you've successfully built the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar - to hurt your competitor's positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need 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 because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.