Backgammon for Serious Players

by Bill Robertie

Overview

Two-time world champion Bill Robertie reveals championship techniques and dynamic advanced strategies for serious tbackgammon players.

Bill Robertie, the world's best backgammon player and only two-time champion. shows players what it takes to play like a world champion. This book for serious players shows how to play boldly, build primes quickly, and go for gammons, and also about killing numbers, doubling in the opening, duplication, creating shots, accepting doubles and lots more advanced strategies! Robertie includes five games by champions with move by move insighjts, powerful concepts used by the world's best players, master opening, middle, back game, and bearoff strategies, plus how to use the doubling cube to make money. Includes more than 100 easy-to-understand diagrams.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580423953
Publisher:	Cardoza
Publication date:	10/11/2022
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Bill Robertie is the author of 15 books on chess and backgammon. He is the world’s best backgammon player and the only two-time Monte Carlo World Championship. He was the former editor and co-publisher of Inside Backgammon, the game’s foremost backgammon magazine. He is also a chess master, winner of the U.S. Speed Chess Championship, and a best-selling author of some of the best beginning chess books ever written

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 9

2 How to Use This Book 11

3 Backgammon Tournaments 13

Backgammon Tournaments

Special Rules For Tournament Play

The Major Tournaments

The World Cup's The World Championship

4 Backgammon Notation 21

5 Game 1: Horan vs. Pauen 25

Opening Strategy

Playing for Flexibility

When to Take a Double

The Gammon Factor

How to Save a Gammon

Summary

6 Game 2: Snellings vs. Magriel 63

Playing to the Score

Importance of Connectivity

Playing for an Undoubled Gammon

How to Bearoff

Summary

7 Game 3: Magriel vs. Svobodny 97

Put Your Checkers Where They Belong

Doubling in the Opening

When to Change Plans

Duplication

Back Game Strategy

Creating Shots

Doubling After a Back Game

Bearing Off Strategy

8 Game 4: Sylvester vs. Snellings 138

Splitting in the Opening

Using Checkers Efficiently

Building a Prime Quickly

Making the Right Moves

Killing Numbers

Grouping Numbers Together

Safely versus Gammon Chances

9 Game 5: Robertie vs. Harris 173

Which 5-Point?

To Hit or Not to Hit

Bold Play versus Safe Play

Recirculation

Back Game Strategy

Mopping Up

Attacking a Stripped Point

10 Next Steps 214

Becoming a Better Player

Backgammon on the Internet

11 Glossary 216