Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 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 use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.