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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the opponent doesn't even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar - to hurt your opponent's positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you're far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.