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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn't even get to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar - to hurt your competitor's positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.