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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you've successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar - to harm your competitor's positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.