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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.