Backgammon Cheats

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.