Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.