Which book should I buy?

[Jaime Driggs]

I am a beginner/intermediate player. Which book should I buy to improve my
game? I heard "Backgammon" is good.

[Tapio Palmroth]

Jaime Driggs <jdr...@students.wisc.edu> kirjoitti
viestissä:8fg6hh$c92$1...@news.doit.wisc.edu...

> I am a beginner/intermediate player. Which book should I buy to improve
my
> game? I heard "Backgammon" is good.
>

'Backgammon ' by Paul Magriel is not only good , it is must if you want to
do anything
with backgammon .

tapio

[Rick Gerace]

Start with Backgammon, by Magriel. Once you're comfortable with that then
pick up Backgammon:Winning with the DOubling Cube, by Peter Bell.

Jaime Driggs <jdr...@students.wisc.edu> wrote in message
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[l l l]

Backgammon is far and away the best book I have read. Second is Roberties
Backgammon for Advanced Players which analyzes 5 championship matches move
by move and also digresses on strategy. The most enlightening section of
that book for me was what your strategy should be when you have hit 6 or 7
of your opponents men.

[Q]

Can't remember exactly the name of the author(s) but it's
called "The Backgammon Book" and their names (I think), are
Jacoby and Crawford. And yes, it,s a cracking game.

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[san...@wi.net]

On Fri, 12 May 2000 18:15:03 -0700, Q
<alisonN...@green96.swinternet.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

>Can't remember exactly the name of the author(s) but it's
>called "The Backgammon Book" and their names (I think), are
>Jacoby and Crawford. And yes, it,s a cracking game.
>

I have a book some where here. It analyses a match between two
americans vs to british players. I haven't looked at in ages plus it
is buried somewhere and I can't find it. A couple of weeks ago I saw
a book by Robertie. It has 500 different moves to ponder. I think
the book is relatively new. As everyone has mentioned the Magirel
book is good.

Besides books, there are quite a few annotated games on the net.
Those are kind of interesting to look at.

Sanford

[Rick Gerace]

The book you're thinking of is Championship Backgammon by Barclay Cooke and
Rene Orlean. Cooke thoroughly annotated a series of matches played by
himself and his son, Walter Cooke, against Joe Dwek and Philip Martyn. The
games were played with duplicate dice rolls. It's a fascinating work, but
unfortunately the follow up volumes were never published, so we have only
that first match. It's an excellent look at top players playing under the
stress of a major event.

<san...@wi.net> wrote in message news:391c7c84...@news.inc.net...

[Jon Thomson]

> > I am a beginner/intermediate player. Which book should I buy to improve
> my
> > game? I heard "Backgammon" is good.
> >
>

> 'Backgammon ' by Paul Magriel is not only good , it is must if you want to
> do anything
> with backgammon .
>

I think it's clear from the thread that Backgammon is the book to buy, can
someone point me towards details, such as ISBN number and that? My
library can order it for me to look at.

Jon Thomson

[Steve Baedke]

1st printing info.

Backgammon by Paul Magriel
Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co.

ISBN 0-8129-0615-2

steve

[Daniel Hollis]

In article <391c7c84...@news.inc.net>, <san...@wi.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 12 May 2000 18:15:03 -0700, Q
><alisonN...@green96.swinternet.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>
> A couple of weeks ago I saw
>a book by Robertie. It has 500 different moves to ponder. I think
>the book is relatively new. As everyone has mentioned the Magirel
>book is good.

Robertie's new book (_501 Essential Backgammon Problems_) is quite good,
and a real bargain at the 20$ list price.

It is different from other books out there now in that the analysis for
each problem is short, but the number of problems is large. I think the
short analysis works because each position is supposed to have a clear
answer. Think of this as the opposite approach to Woolsey's _New
Ideas..._, where the problems are all taken from experts' errors.

The nice thing about _501 Problems_ is that I feel like there aren't any
problems that are beyond my capabilities. Yet, I still manage to get a
fair number of them wrong.

Dan

[Gregg Cattanach]

The first book everyone should read is (of course) Backgammon by Magriel.
As you move from intermediate to advanced, the two volumes of Robertie's
'Advanced Backgammon' are indispensable. He does a great job of
highlighting 'reference positions', and works out many of the detailed and
technical positions that come up, (bear-off doubles, doubles against holding
games, close outs with men on the bar, ace point anchors, etc etc.)

I've gone through 501 Essential Backgammon Problems, and was not as
impressed. They were interesting problems and well organized into themes,
but somehow the effort he spent in Advanced Backgammon just wasn't there.
It's worth $20 for sure, but Advanced Backgammon is a dramatically better
effort, and a 'text book' I often go back to for reference information.

Also, Danny Kleinman is a very interesting author, who is one of the few
writers that spends a great deal of time writing about chouettes. "Vision
Laughs at Counting, and Advice to the Dicelorn" ($80 for both volumes), is
really a treasure trove of information and humor. I learned a GREAT deal
about how to handle chouette action from Mr. Kleinman.

Good luck in you games and your study!

--
Gregg Cattanach
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http://gateway.to/backgammon
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