Backgammon Cheats

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, 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 difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.