Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play 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.