Teach Yourself Backgammon

Name: Teach Yourself Backgammon
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ISBN: 9780071482608

ISBN-10: 0071482601

ISBN-13: 9780071482608

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michael Crane

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Learn to play backgammon from the best Teach Yourself Backgammon is the ultimate guide to playing the 5,000-year-old board game that combines the thrilling uncertainty of craps with the strategic complexity of chess. Packed with practical, fun exercises, it provides you with clear, step-by-step instruction in the basics as well as advanced strategies from some of the world ' s top tournament players.

Book details

List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 2/2/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Michael Crane



Acknowledgements



What is backgammon?



Starting at the end!


Bearing off - the end of the game


Bearing off against opposition on the bar


Bearing off against opposition in your home board


Bearing in safely against opposition


Back to the beginning



The opening moves


Point makers


Builders


Runners


Doubles



Time to play a game


Anchors and holding game


Backgame


Golden Point


Bar-Point


Primes


Diversification


Duplication


Backgammon and Gammon


Crossovers


Blitz


Slotting


Splitting


One checker back


Timing



Luck in backgammon



Essential tables for winning at backgammon


Dice combinations


Rolls that contain a...


Rolls that hit a double shot


Re-entering off the bar with one checker


Re-entering off the bar with two checkers


A number of ways of making points


Bearing off your last two checkers



Pip-counting


Opposites


Blocks


Centre-point block-counting method


The running total difference



Keeping count


Palm-up and palm-down


The curly finger


The board and finger


Tips



The doubling cube


What is a doubling cube?


The 25 per cent and 10 per cent rules


PRaT


Too good to double


Double them out


The Crawford rule


The Jacoby rule



Match analysis - a test of your checker-play knowledge


Terminology


The match



Variations


Chouette


Acey-duecy


Plakoto


Tavla



Etiquette and tournament procedures


Taking part in a tournament


Playing a game


Clocks in backgammon



The history of backgammon


Ancient history


More recent history


Modern backgammon


Taking it further


Magazines


Books


Merchandise


Internet resources


Online backgammon


Where to play


Software


A test of knowledge


Questions


Answers


Glossary


Index