Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.