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

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you've successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn't even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar - to hurt your competitor's positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you're far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.