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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 shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar - to harm your competitor's positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.