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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar - to hurt your competitor's positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.