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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you've successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to hurt your competitor's positions in hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.