Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game plan uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.