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Article #144Re: Backgammon books
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:20
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:20
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The book that got _me_ rather hooked on Backgammon was a book called "Backgammon for Blood" by someone whose name eludes me. I also browsed through "The Playboy's book of backgammon", which I feel is a simpler book, but it has interesting ideas (like the idea that backgammon is 30% courage), and it has a lot of really interesting games in it. I followed his strategy rather closely, but have switched to a slightly more risky (with more potential) style. I am interested in finding a more advanced book, as well. any e-mail highly appreciated. On the whole, if possible, though, I'd just recommend playing someone better than you, and then experimenting by yourself. Sometimes I play both sides, each color using a different style, to see who wins more often. - Frank Wang ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!ftw33616 From: ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.) Subject: Re: Backgammon books References: <18nmhuINNf7j@cs.utexas.edu> Message-ID: <BuDBxw.ILz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:20:18 GMT Lines: 19