Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.