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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, the competitor doesn't even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are very similar - to hinder your opponent's positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.