How Good Are You At Backgammon?
50 Challenging Situations for You to Rate Your Ability with the Experts
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- 3٫99 US$
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- 3٫99 US$
وصف الناشر
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 experts—you 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 your…neighborhood. 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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Great info, but poorly presented
This is a good book for intermediate payers wanting to improve their ability. It's not aimed at beginners; it won't teach you how to play the game, so if that's your goal you'd be better served by a different book.
My problem is not with the information in the book, but rather the way it is presented. There are lots of positions where the reader is shown a board and challenged to find the best move for a given dice throw, but the dice throw is always on the next page! It's really annoying to have to keep flipping back and forth all the time. There are also MANY typos throughout. I'd have given it 5 stars had it been proofread and edited better.