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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar - to hurt your competitor's positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.