Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.