Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.