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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you've successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar - to hinder your competitor's positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.