Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.