Backgammon for serious players

SCU:978-1-58042-365-6

Bill Robertie

Bill Robertie, a double world champion, uncovers championship techniques and dynamic advanced strategies for serious backgammon enthusiasts. Robertie, who is recognized as the world’s top backgammon player and the only one to have won the championship twice, instructs players on how to perform at a championship level. This book, designed for dedicated players, provides guidance on playing aggressively, quickly establishing primes, and aiming for gammons, as well as mastering advanced tactics such as killing numbers, doubling in the opening, duplication, creating shots, and accepting doubles, among other strategies.

In addition to these advanced strategies, Robertie provides insights into five games played by champions, presenting step-by-step analyses, powerful techniques employed by the world’s leading players, and strategies for mastering the opening, middle, back game, and bearoff stages. He also guides players on how to effectively use the doubling cube to increase their winnings. The book includes over 100 diagrams that are easy to understand.

What strategies do leading players employ to establish scenarios where they can outmaneuver their adversaries? They can’t just rely on luck and land on straightforward positions that can be easily played by anyone. Rather, they have to identify the chances to create intricate gameplay while also maintaining flexibility in their strategies. By examining instances from recent master-level matches, Bill Robertie unveils the hidden techniques of creating and triumphing in the intricate, two-sided games that form the essence of contemporary backgammon.

This publication is replete with guidance on managing games involving double-anchor holds, back games, and scenarios where both parties are concurrently priming their adversary while maintaining backgame alternatives. You’ll acquire knowledge on the optimal time and method to cycle checkers, the pros and cons of the outside prime, and the correct approach following a late shot hit. If you possess a fundamental comprehension of backgammon but aspire to comprehend the mastery of the experts, this book will assist you in elevating your game.

Are you a backgammon enthusiast seeking to elevate your gameplay? This insightful book, penned by the most accomplished player in the world, is your key to achieving that! It enlightens you about essential opening strategies and their respective responses, techniques for middle, end, and back games, strategies for tournaments, advanced plays involving the doubling cube, and intriguing strategic moves. It also covers the fundamental probabilities and odds in backgammon, unconventional plays, priming strategy, crucial bearoff play, and much more. The book contains five games played by champions, providing an insight into every move, 113 diagrams, and the hidden dynamics of playing with audacity and in a champion-like manner.

As a young boy, when Bill Robertie delved into chess, he would have never guessed that his unwavering dedication to the game would eventually result in significant global accomplishments in three games – chess, backgammon, and poker.


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