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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will 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 opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.