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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent's checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you've successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your opponent doesn't even get to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar - to hurt your opponent's positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.