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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 shift your chips carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the opponent doesn't even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to harm your competitor's positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.