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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you've successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn't even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar - to hinder your opponent's positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.