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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the opponent doesn't even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You'll 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 hinder your competitor's positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.