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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar - to harm your competitor's positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you're far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.