Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.