Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.