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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. 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 technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.