Magriel's 'Backgammon' - errors?

[Gregg Cattanach]

An EXCELLENT book has been written that points out many of the incorrect
recommendations in 'Backgammon' and other important books of the past based
on our new knowledge from the neural nets. "Classic Backgammon Revisited'
by Jeremy Bagai is a superb effort, with excellent analysis backed up by the
computer rollouts. You can get it from Carol Joy Cole at: c...@tir.com .
Can't recommend this new book highly enough.

Gregg

"LostVegan" <NO.JUNKl...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dusted off an old (but nearly mint) copy today.
>
> It's the second printing, March 1977 hard cover Quadrangle/NYT
> edition.
>
> No, I'm not selling it. After years away from the game, I'm going to
> re-read it. I remember seeing here some time ago that the book
> contains several errors (in some of the diagrams, I believe).
>
> If anyone knows where & what those errors are, or point me to a source
> or link that would be helpful in finding & correcting them, I would be
> grateful.
> TIA.
> --
> Marty (to respond via email, remove NO.JUNK from email address)
>
> "to be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day, to make
> you just like everybody else - is to fight the greatest battle
> there ever is to fight, and never stop fighting" -- e.e. cummings

[Jim]

I just bought this book in it's latest reprint. Do you know if this will
also have the errors you speak of, or will ammendments have been made?

LostVegan wrote:

>
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 00:24:24 GMT, "Gregg Cattanach"
> <gcattana...@prodigy.net> wrote:
>
> >An EXCELLENT book has been written that points out many of the incorrect
> >recommendations in 'Backgammon' and other important books of the past based
> >on our new knowledge from the neural nets. "Classic Backgammon Revisited'
> >by Jeremy Bagai is a superb effort, with excellent analysis backed up by the
> >computer rollouts. You can get it from Carol Joy Cole at: c...@tir.com .
> >Can't recommend this new book highly enough.
> >
> >Gregg
> >

> Thanks,
>
> I'll place that title on my "get list."
>
> For now, though, I was looking for inconsistencies, errors or typos
> specific to the title I mentioned.

[Mario Kuehl]

Since about 2 years we publish an international english/german backgammon
magazine Backgammon Today. In our serie "Classics under the Microscope" we
gave a comprehensive review (two parts in issues #2 and #3) of Magriels
book.

To get a free copy of our special edition (compilation of sample articles
from the first four issues) send your postal address to
in...@backgammon-today.com.

Mario Kühl

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