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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 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 employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.