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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the opponent doesn't even get to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar - to harm your opponent's positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you're far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.