Backgammon Cheats

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.