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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.