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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you've successfully built the prime to block the movement of the opponent, your 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 Tactic

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to hinder your competitor's positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you're far behind your competitor. 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 technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.