Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play 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 plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.