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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn't even get to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar - to hurt your competitor's positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you're far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.