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 move your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, 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 checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.