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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you've successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the competitor doesn't even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar - to hinder your competitor's positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you're far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.