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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you've successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to hinder your competitor's positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in 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 tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.