Backgammon Cheats

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.