Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.