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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you've successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn't even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar - to harm your competitor's positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you're far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.