Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player 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 ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two 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 use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.