Backgammon for Serious Players | 
 enlarge | Author: Bill Robertie
Publisher: Cardoza
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 141415
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 158042077X
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.515
EAN: 9781580420778
ASIN: 158042077X
Publication Date: February 18, 2003
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Product Description
Written by the world's greatest player over the last two decades, serious players learn all-important opening strategies and replies, middle, end and back game techniques, tournament strategies, advanced doubling cube play, and fascinating strategy moves. Also covers backgammon probabilities and odds, unusual plays, priming strategy, essential bearoff play and more. Includes example games from the masters with the thinking behind each move.
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 Stepped up my game in one read August 4, 2008
Great book. Really improved my game with one read. Easy to understand and brought together the loose pieces of what I know into a solid understanding. Very beneficial. Easy read.
more than i expected January 16, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
i'm a backgammon player for more than 20 years and this book has given me many solid and useful insights in statistics, common situations during the game, strategies etc. I loved it! Not to mention that the writer has a great gift of putting his ideas clearly and objectively.
Increased my rating on FIBS by 100 May 14, 2003
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I had been stuck below 1500 on FIBS internet backgammon server for over a year. After studying this book for about a month, my rating increased by 100 points. I have since read Bill Robertie's other books, and I am now at 1650 on FIBS. The basic tips highlighted in this book are worth the cost of this book alone. To get the most out of this book, you need to use a backgammon board and play along with the diagrams, and compare what you would usually do compared to what an expert would do in the same situation. Great for beginners and intermediates!
 As the title suggests, best for serious players February 19, 2002
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
Dr. Robertie presents over 100 backgammon situations in this book. All of them have serious analysis. Not for the novice, but if you're a backgammon hound, it's worth the read. His analysis of the end game is especially good.
easy to read, fast progress results February 10, 2001
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
I didn't know anything about backgammon: notation, strategy, etc. I read this book and found it was easy to follow the games and his annotations. Then I started beating people who previously would easily beat me. 'Nuff said.
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