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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.