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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.