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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you've successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar - to hurt your opponent's positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you're far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.