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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you've successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn't even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar - to harm your opponent's positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you're far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.