Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.