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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game strategy 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 tactic utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.