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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn't even get to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to hurt your competitor's positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you're far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.