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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn't even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You'll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar - to hurt your competitor's positions hoping to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you're far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.