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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.