Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity 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 damaged position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.