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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you've successfully built the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn't even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to hinder your opponent's positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.