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

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you've successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, the opponent doesn't even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar - to hinder your opponent's positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 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 employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.