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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.