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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar - to harm your competitor's positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.