How Good Are You at Backgammon?: 50 Challenging Situations for You to Rate Your Ability with the Experts - Softcover
If you already play backgammon, don't you sometimes wonder how good you really are? Well, this book is your chance to really find out.The 50 situations presented here, cover most of the aspects of the game, from initial moves to bearing off strategies. Each problem is graded on the basis of 5 points for the optimum play and some partial credit for sub-optimum but adequate ones, if such exist.If you rack up a score of 225-250, you rank right up there with the expertsyou should think seriously of competing in Backgammon Tournaments. If you score 200-224, you are not an expert yet, but you are rapidly approaching this point. A score of 135-199 indicates that you are a good, sound player, probably the best in yourneighborhood. If you score less than 135 points, there is no need for despair. Study this book carefully. It can serve as a case studies tool for improving your game. Besides, the problems presented are not only mind-taxing, they are also entertaining. And the justifications for the optimum play are clearly explained, often culminating in various useful rules of thumb (the closer-closest rule, the rule of even, etc.) for difficult, but commonly occurring situations. Good luck!
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Dr. Nicolaos S. Tzannes, a Professor of Electrical Engineering, has authored many books/articles in his field, including "Communication and Radar Systems", reprinted recently by Authors Choice Press. Dr. B. Tzannes, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Patras, Greece, has authored many papers in his field of Topology. The brothers, well-known backgammon theoreticians, have also co-authored the book Backgammon Games and Strategies, published recently by iUniverse.com.
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- Publication date2001
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