Backgammon Cheats

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.