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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to hinder your opponent's positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.