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 carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.