Backgammon Cheats

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.