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ABT 2009:   U.S. Backgammon Tournament Rules and Procedures (2009). COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES 2013:   U.S. Backgammon Clock Rules and Procedures (2013). COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES Albert, Jim 1996:   Introduction to Probability. TACTICS / PROBABILITY Anonymous 1981:   America's Giant 32. MISCELLANEOUS / HONORS 2009:   Backgammon Camp. STUDY / BLOGS 2010:   The Origin of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY 2011:   Backgammon for Beginners. STUDY / BLOGS 2011:   Dubrovnik Backgammon. STUDY / BLOGS 2012:   How to Play NC Backgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2014:   St Albans Chouette Rules. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 2015:   UKBGF Tournament Rules. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES 2016:   European Backgammon Federation Tournament Rules. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES Ash, Greg 2002:   Backgammon ACT Chouette Rules. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES

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Backgammon Times 1982:   Master's Panel Updated. STUDY / QUIZZES 1982:   The Trial (and Tribulations) of Oregon Promoter Ted Barr. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL Backgren, Peter 2013:   Eskgammon (d10gammon). GENERAL / VARIANTS Bagai, Jeremy 1994:   Annotated Match: Kit Woolsey vs. Jeremy Bagai. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 2007:   EMG Woes: Toward a More Consistent Normalization of Match-Play Errors. COMPUTERS / ANALYZING ERRORS 2015:   Bagai’s Replies: Mastering the Second Roll. STRATEGY / OPENINGS Ballard, Nack 2001:   Naccel: a[N accel]erated Pipcount. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2003:   In the Beginning. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2007:   Early Doubles 1. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2007:   Early Doubles 2. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2008:   Match Score Explanations. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2008:   Nactation. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2009:   Backgammon Replies. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2010:   Naccel 2--aN ACCELerated Pipcount. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2017:   Coconut Count. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING Bar Point 1931:   Backgammon Up to Date. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Barnhart, Joy Lee 1998:   History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY Barr, Ted 1980:   The Intermediate Cube. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION Barto, Andrew G. 1998:   Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Bastian, Kevin 1998:   The FIBS Rating System. COMPETITION / RATINGS Beadle, Mark 1992:   Games of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age. GENERAL / HISTORY Beadles, Patti 1995:   FIBS dice analysis. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE Becker, Bruce 1974:   Basics for Beginners. GENERAL / RULES 1974:   Battle Strategy: The Basic Approach to War. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 1974:   If You Can Count to 36, .... TACTICS / PROBABILITY 1974:   Science and Chance, and the Science of Chance. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 1974:   The Diabolical Doubler: Betting for Blood. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION Bell, Peter 1995:   The Doubling Cube. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY Benjamin, Arthur 1997:   Enumerating Backgammon Positions: The Perfect Hash. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS 2007:   Estimating Winning Probabilities in Backgammon Races. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS Berger, Frank 2009:   Making the World's Smallest Backgammon Expert. COMPUTERS / OTHER BOTS Berkeley 1895:   Draughts and Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Berliner, Hans 1977:   BKG, a Program That Plays Backgammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 1977:   Experiences in Evaluation with BKG, a Program That Plays Backgammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 1979:   On the Construction of Evaluation Functions for Large Domains. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 1980:   Backgammon Computer Program Beats World Champion. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 1980:   Computer Backgammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Bidal, Jay 2007:   Towards a Better Method of Recording Backgammon Games. STUDY / RECORDED MATCHES Bigot, Bernard 2003:   Inside Bearoff. TACTICS / RACING Bishop, Pete 1979:   Computer Beats Backgammon Champ. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Bjornstad, Allan 2011:   Relaxing at War with Acey Deucey. GENERAL / VARIANTS Bjornstad, Jon 2006:   Acey Deucey. GENERAL / VARIANTS Blair 1996:   Coevolution of a Backgammon Player. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Blath, Jochen 2001:   Doubling the Stakes and Brownian Motion. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY Bond, Ralph A. 1930:   Beginner’s Book of Modern Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Bower, Chuck 1999:   History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY 1999:   Rankings and Ratings. COMPETITION / RATINGS 2001:   Quantifying Backgammon Skill. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2001:   Snowie Parameter Settings. COMPUTERS / SNOWIE 2001:   Understanding Uncertainty. COMPUTERS / ROLLOUTS 2008:   A study of digital clock usage in 7-point matches. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2010:   My Experience at Monte Carlo. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2011:   A Closer Look at the Meyer Dice Tube. GENERAL / EQUIPMENT 2012:   Tournament Backgammon Rules and Standards Guide. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES Boyden, Elizabeth Clark 1930:   The New Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Boyer, C.J. 1983:   Jose Alvarez and Jim Pasko: A Study in Contrasts. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Bradshaw, Jon 1974:   Chouette. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 1974:   Settlements. MISCELLANEOUS / MONEY MANAGEMENT 1974:   The Back Game. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 1974:   The Doubler. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 1974:   The Pip Count. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 1974:   The Psychology of Backgammon. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY 1974:   The Tactics of the Game. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 1974:   The Use of the Doubler in Tournaments. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1974:   Three Great Games. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES Brandt, George 1980:   Cooke's and Orleans's Championship Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Bray, Chris 1997:   Remembering Match Equities. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 1998:   R.I.P. Inside Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY 2007:   Backgammon History. GENERAL / HISTORY 2007:   Recommended Backgammon Books. STUDY / BOOK SUGGESTIONS 2013:   Backgammon Races. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2016:   Position of the Day. STUDY / BLOGS Brokaw, Clare Boothe 1930:   Vanity Fair’s Backgammon to Win. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Buro, Michael 1999:   Efficient Approximation of Backgammon Race Equities. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS Bushey, William 1970:   Gammon, an Approach to the Concept of Strategy in Game-Playing Programs. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING

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Cattanach, Gregg 2003:   ABA Chouette Rules. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES Chabot, Michelin 1982:   Backgammon: How Much Should You Bet?. MISCELLANEOUS / MONEY MANAGEMENT 1983:   Backgammon: How to Maximize Your Profits Using the Kelly System. MISCELLANEOUS / MONEY MANAGEMENT 2014:   Money Cube Action in Low-Wastage Positions. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2015:   Analysis of: "Improved Cube Handling in Races: Insights with Isight". CUBE HANDLING / RACES Charmoy, Philippe H. A. 2010:   Backgammon Ends with Probability One. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS Chow, Timothy 2009:   Backgammon Opening Replies. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2009:   Rollouts of Robertie’s 501 Essential Backgammon Problems. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2011:   Chow’s Checkerplay Challenge. STUDY / QUIZZES 2011:   Rollouts of Wiggins’s Boards, Blots, and Double Shots. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Ciaffone, Bob 1980:   Michigan Movement. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1980:   There Ought to Be a Law. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES 1981:   Baron Vernon Ball's Alpha Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Clark, Marcia 1997:   Gaby Horowitz and Bruce Roman. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Clark, Stephen 2000:   Panic City. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS Collins, Ed 2002:   Ed's Backgammon Problems. STUDY / QUIZZES 2005:   Dice and the Laws of Probability. TACTICS / PROBABILITY Condos, Vassilis 2006:   Tavli (Greek Backgammon). GENERAL / VARIANTS Cooke, Barclay 1974:   Chouette. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 1974:   Settlements. MISCELLANEOUS / MONEY MANAGEMENT 1974:   The Back Game. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 1974:   The Doubler. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 1974:   The Pip Count. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 1974:   The Psychology of Backgammon. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY 1974:   The Tactics of the Game. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 1974:   The Use of the Doubler in Tournaments. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1974:   Three Great Games. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 1980:   The Computers. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 1980:   The Cube: Tournament vs. Money Play. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY Cooke, Bob 1982:   Barclay Cooke: A Personal Memoir. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Cotton, Charles 1674:   The Compleat Gamester. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Cox, Dan 1992:   Big Backgammon Binge. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES Crane, Michael 2000:   A Look at the Golden Point. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2000:   Crane Rules. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES 2000:   Starting a Backgammon Club. COMPETITION / BACKGAMMON CLUBS 2000:   Tavla in Turkey. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2007:   The Pip-Count of Monte Cristo. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2009:   Backgammon for Beginners. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 2012:   Obituaries. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 2013:   BIBA Backgammon Rules and Procedures. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES Crawford, John R. 1970:   Basic Probability. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 1970:   Chouette. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 1970:   Counting the Position. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 1970:   Doubles and Redoubles. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 1970:   Etiquette. COMPETITION / ETIQUETTE 1970:   General Principles of Play. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 1970:   How to Run a Backgammon Tournament. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1970:   Other Forms of Backgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 1970:   Settlements. MISCELLANEOUS / MONEY MANAGEMENT 1970:   The History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY Crawley, Captain 1858:   Backgammon: Its Theory and Practice. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS

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Dalvi, Ashutosh 2011:   The Ash Dalvi 13 Count. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING Damish, Mark 1994:   Question and Answer Session with Neil Kazaross. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 1995:   Backgammon Frequently Asked Questions. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 1995:   Basic Strategy for Beginners. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 1995:   Other games played on a backgammon board. GENERAL / VARIANTS Dave Frary 2009:   Chessgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS Davis, Bill 1980:   Duo-Gammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 1981:   The Ultimate Backgammon Contest. MISCELLANEOUS / PUZZLES 1983:   Tak Morioka: Chicago’s Man of the Year. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 1996:   Chicago Bar Point Club Tournament Procedure. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1996:   Forming and Operating a Backgammon Club. COMPETITION / BACKGAMMON CLUBS 1999:   The Great Prime Problem. MISCELLANEOUS / PUZZLES 2005:   American Backgammon Tour. MISCELLANEOUS / HONORS 2006:   Michael Maxakuli Obituary. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 2006:   Pyramid Backgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2009:   Backgammon and Doubling: Just the Facts. GENERAL / HISTORY Derryberry, DeWayne 2002:   Sample Size and Computer Roll-Outs. COMPUTERS / ROLLOUTS Deyong, Lewis 2009:   Early Days of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY Dionne, Roger 1979:   A Gamesman’s War against Luck, Disorder and Surface Chaos. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Driver, Mark 2000:   A History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY 2000:   Beginner's Guide to Counting Pips. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2001:   Flow: The Power of One. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY 2001:   Kleinman's Vision Laughs at Counting. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2001:   Lamford's Starting Out in Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2001:   The Art of War: The Tao of Backgammon. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY 2001:   Two Worlds Collide: Casual and Formal Backgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2001:   Winning Magick. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY 2002:   Cooke/Orlean's Championship Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2004:   Sydney Backgammon FAQ. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION Durrett, Rick 2003:   Doubling Cube Quiz. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY

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Encyclopedia Britannica 1911:   Backgammon. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION

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Fankhauser, Peter 1996:   Rollouts for Advanced Backgammon. STUDY / POSITION LISTS Flanagan, Steve 2003:   Beginners and Bots. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE Fletcher, David 1981:   Beaver Theory. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY Floyd, Bob 1981:   Can You Take a Double In a Symmetric Position?. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 1982:   Riding the Tiger. MISCELLANEOUS / MATHEMATICS OF BACKGAMMON 1983:   A Killer Problem. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1983:   Advanced Gammon Avoidance. TACTICS / PLAYING FOR/SAVING GAMMON Frey, Richard 1971:   Booktalk: The Backgammon Book. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Friedman, Roy 1989:   Match Equity Table. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 1993:   Ortega's Fascinating Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Frigo, Frank 2006:   About Luck and Skill in Backgammon and Poker. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2006:   What Lies Beyond the Board?. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS

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Gambling Online Magazine 2006:   John Clark: 30 Years of Backgammon. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Games Magazine 1982:   A Backgammon Gamble Pays Off. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL GammonSite 2004:   How Rolls Are Generated at GammonSite. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE GammonVillage 2000:   Backgammon Dictionary. GENERAL / TERMINOLOGY Gay, Dean 2007:   Cluster Counting Revisited. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING Gerace, Ric 1980:   David Dor-El's The Clermont Book of Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2001:   My Bumpy Life in Backgammon. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES Gillis, Harvey 2010:   Backgammon Decision Analysis for Success. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2011:   Backgammon for Life's Challenges. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY Goldfarb, Fran 1982:   Backbreakers. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 1982:   Bear Essentials. TACTICS / ACE-POINT GAMES Goulding, Kent 1981:   A Pip Is a Pip, or Is It?. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 1981:   Cube Decisions at 2-away 4-away. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1982:   Backgammon with the Champions' Panel of Masters. STUDY / QUIZZES 1982:   Getting Gammoned? Turn the Cube. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1982:   Jeff Ward's Winning Is More Fun. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 1982:   Programming Computers to Play Backgammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 1982:   Robertie's Lee Genud vs. Joe Dwek. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 1982:   The Double-Beaver Question. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 1983:   Pasko vs. Motakhasses: The Turnberry Isle Final. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 1984:   Backgammon Ratings: What They Are, How They Work, and Are They Useful. COMPETITION / RATINGS Grater, Art 2004:   The Backgammon Portal Bibliography. STUDY / BOOK LISTS

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Hagendorn, Rick 1981:   Build Your Own Board. GENERAL / EQUIPMENT Hansen, Michael Bo 1998:   Michael's 432 Rule. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS Hattersley, Lelia 1930:   How to Play the New Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Heinrich, Hal 1999:   Initial Doubles. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS Heisman, Dan 1983:   A Controversial Move. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 1984:   Simulating Positions. COMPUTERS / ROLLOUTS Herman, Steve 1981:   Backgammon in the Land of the Rising Sun. GENERAL / HISTORY Hervén, Markus 2009:   Making the World's Smallest Backgammon Expert. COMPUTERS / OTHER BOTS Heuler, Oliver 2002:   How to Use Snowie More Efficiently. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE Hevesi, Dennis 2010:   Tim Holland Dies. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Hickey, Bob 1981:   What Did I Miss?. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS Hickey, Mary 1981:   Kleinman's Vision Laughs at Counting. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 1981:   Kleinman's Wonderful World of Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2001:   GGraccoon Speaks Out. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 2003:   GGraccoon Speaks Out Again. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 2006:   A Time for Letting Go. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Another Great Back Game to Avoid. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2006:   Are You Sure it is a Back Game?. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2006:   Attack or Prime?. STRATEGY / ATTACKING GAMES 2006:   Committing to Containment. TACTICS / CONTAINMENT 2006:   Exception to Attacking a Single Back Checker. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2006:   Game Plan Selection. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2006:   Planning to Play to Win. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2006:   Prime Time?. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2006:   When it Pays to be Greedy. STRATEGY / ATTACKING GAMES 2007:   Kill or Let Die?. STRATEGY / ATTACKING GAMES 2007:   Playing Against a Five-Point Block. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2015:   How to Study Your Own Matches. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE Higgins, Mark 2012:   Cube Handling In Backgammon Money Games Under a Jump Model. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY Hisako 2006:   Backgammon Quotes and Tips. STUDY / TIPS Hiss, William J. 1930:   Backgammon Standards. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Hoffman, Grant 2001:   Dice Counting, an Alternative to Pip Counting. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING Hoffman, Jackie 2001:   Dice Counting, an Alternative to Pip Counting. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING Hollands, Roy 2001:   Double? Take? The Mathematical View. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY Hoosier Backgammon Club 2005:   Newsletter Archive: 1979 to 2005. GENERAL / HISTORY Hopper, Millard 1941:   Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Horowitz, Gaby 1979:   Use the Cube As a Weapon, Not As a Gift. STUDY / CUBE PROBLEMS 1980:   An Objective Viewpoint. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 1980:   The Finesse of a Master. STUDY / CUBE PROBLEMS 1981:   Eliminate Emotional Influence. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 1981:   Handling Your Superior Opponent. TACTICS / UNEQUAL PLAYERS 1981:   The First Step in Learning. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 1982:   Considering Potential Gain Versus Potential Loss. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 1982:   The Monday Night Football Fatality. TACTICS / CONTAINMENT 1983:   Strategy for the 80's. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 1983:   The Prime Syndrome. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 1983:   Wanna Bet?. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES Hoyle, Edmond 1744:   A Short Treatise on the Game of Back-Gammon. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Hristov, Iancho 2006:   Snowie Ranking List. MISCELLANEOUS / HONORS Huebener, Hardy 2005:   Hardy's Book Suggestions. STUDY / BOOK SUGGESTIONS 2006:   Tabular History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY 2006:   Words of Wisdom. STUDY / TIPS 2007:   Backgammon in Advertisements. GENERAL / HISTORY 2007:   Hardy's Backgammon FAQ. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 2007:   Hardy's Match Archive. STUDY / RECORDED MATCHES

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Inter-Club League of New York 1970:   Laws of Backgammon, 1970. GENERAL / RULES International Backgammon Association 1969:   IBA Rules, 1969. GENERAL / RULES 1970:   Laws of Backgammon, 1970. GENERAL / RULES

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Jacobs, Jake 1996:   Your Table Is Waiting. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2000:   Shoot the Chouette. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES 2005:   Trice's Backgammon Boot Camp. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2006:   Bray's What Colour is the Wind?. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2006:   Heinrich/Woolsey's New Ideas in Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2006:   Lamford's Improve Your Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2006:   Robertie's Backgammon for Serious Players. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2006:   Robertie's Modern Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2006:   Wiggins's Boards, Blots, and Double Shots. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Jacoby, Oswald 1970:   Basic Probability. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 1970:   Chouette. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 1970:   Counting the Position. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 1970:   Doubles and Redoubles. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 1970:   Etiquette. COMPETITION / ETIQUETTE 1970:   General Principles of Play. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 1970:   How to Run a Backgammon Tournament. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1970:   Other Forms of Backgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 1970:   Settlements. MISCELLANEOUS / MONEY MANAGEMENT 1970:   The History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY 1980:   Backgammon Etiquette. COMPETITION / ETIQUETTE 1981:   Backgammon History. GENERAL / HISTORY Janowski, Rick 1993:   Take-Points in Money Games. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 2013:   Match Equity Formula Reviewed and Revised. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES Japanese Backgammon League 2010:   Othello Quizzes and More. STUDY / QUIZZES Jeff Hayes 2009:   Chessgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS

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Kahn, E.J. 1977:   Playing X-22. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES Kato, Hideo 1981:   Recording Backgammon Games. STUDY / RECORDED MATCHES Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos V. 2005:   Optimal Doubling Strategy against a Sub-Optimal Opponent. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS Katz, Stu 1994:   Give Me a Break--Give It a Number. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR Kazaross, Neil 2007:   Backgammon Openings. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2010:   The Rockwell-Kazaross Match Equity Table. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES Keeler, Emmet 1975:   Optimal Doubling in Backgammon. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY Keith, Tom 1995:   How to Compute a Match Equity Table. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 1995:   Match Play Doubling Strategy. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1995:   Rules of Backgammon. GENERAL / RULES 1996:   Motif Backgammon Player Engine. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 2004:   Backgammon Books Worth Reading. STUDY / BOOK SUGGESTIONS 2004:   Backgammon Variants. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2004:   Cube Handling in Noncontact Positions. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2004:   How to Play Acey-Deucey. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2004:   How to Run a Chouette. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 2005:   Backgammon Galore FAQ. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 2005:   Backgammon Opening Replies. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2005:   Introduction to the Rules of Backgammon. GENERAL / RULES 2005:   Rollouts of Opening Replies. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2006:   How to Play the Opening Rolls. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2006:   Introduction to Match Play. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2006:   Introduction to Ratings. COMPETITION / RATINGS 2006:   Rollouts of Opening Moves. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2006:   The Many Games of Backgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2007:   Backgammon Galore Glossary. GENERAL / TERMINOLOGY 2007:   What is 'Nactation'. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2011:   Nack Ballard's Kangaroo Count. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2011:   The Michael Depreli Bot Comparisons. COMPUTERS / OTHER BOTS 2013:   Paul Magriel's Columns in the New York Times. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 2013:   Position List for Bruce Becker’s “Backgammon for Blood”. STUDY / POSITION LISTS 2013:   Position List for Cooke’s and Bradshaw’s “Backgammon, the Cruelest Game”. STUDY / POSITION LISTS 2013:   Position List for Jacoby and Crawford’s “The Backgammon Book”. STUDY / POSITION LISTS 2013:   Position List for Tim Holland’s “Better Backgammon”. STUDY / POSITION LISTS 2013:   Simulating Partial Round-Robin Tournaments. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2013:   The Kazaross-XG2 Match Equity Table. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2013:   Too Good and Not Good Enough. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2017:   Undefined Equity. MISCELLANEOUS / MATHEMATICS OF BACKGAMMON 2018:   Hypergammon Fun. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2018:   Match Equity Tables over the Years. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES Kennedy, Bill 1982:   Perpetual Redouble?. MISCELLANEOUS / MATHEMATICS OF BACKGAMMON Kerr, Dale 2007:   World Champions of Backgammon. MISCELLANEOUS / HONORS Khatchadourian, Raffi 2013:   The Chaos of the Dice. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Kissane, Jack 1992:   Cluster Counting. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING Kleinman, Danny 1980:   Backgammon Tournament Freebies. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 1980:   Match Equities into Take Points. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 1980:   Normal Race Takes. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 1980:   Propositions. GENERAL / VARIANTS 1980:   Settlements and Fracture Points. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 1980:   Shopper's Manual for Backgammon Tournaments. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1980:   Symmetry, Marginal Utility, and the Cube. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 1980:   The Cube Equations. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 1980:   The Cube Provocation Play. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 1980:   The Doubling Cube and Football Fields. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 1980:   The Doubling Cube in Money Backgammon. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 1980:   The Doubling Cube in Tournament Matches. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1980:   The Doubling Cube in the Wonderland of Errors. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 1980:   The Match Score Charts. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 1980:   The Price Of Gammons. TACTICS / PLAYING FOR/SAVING GAMMON 1981:   Highways and Byways of Byes. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1981:   The Arithmetic of the Losers' Bracket. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1982:   Communication and Dys-communication. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 1982:   Help for the Hustler?. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 1983:   Curse You, Norman Zadeh. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 1991:   The Meunch Formula. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES Kobliska, Gary 1977:   On Optimal Doubling in Backgammon. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY Koca, Bob 2007:   Curing Your Short Bearoff Blues. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2010:   Mathematics and Backgammon. MISCELLANEOUS / MATHEMATICS OF BACKGAMMON 2011:   Compensating Players Who Do Not Receive a Bye. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS Konik, Michael 1999:   Backgammon Hustler. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES Kuczynski, Alex 2004:   When Life Is a Roll of the Dice. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES Kulseth, Stein 2000:   A Position from Jemimah's Past. MISCELLANEOUS / PUZZLES 2000:   Barry Fisk and the Early Cube. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES 2000:   Jemimah Plays Nackgammon—Not. MISCELLANEOUS / PUZZLES 2000:   Jemimah's Beaver Creek Double. MISCELLANEOUS / PUZZLES

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Labins, Mike 1982:   The Fundamental Point. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1983:   The Fundamental Point. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS Lamford, Paul 2000:   Too Good? Too Bad!. CUBE HANDLING / GOING FOR GAMMON Landwehr, Bob 2000:   The Making of Bob's Backgammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Las Vegas Backgammon Magazine 1980:   Profile of Lee Genud. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 1980:   Profile of Paul Magriel. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 1981:   Interview with Prince Joli Kansil. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 1981:   Profile of Carol Cole. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 1981:   Profile of Howard Markowitz. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 1981:   Profile of Jacoby Profile. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Leibowitz, David 1981:   No Defense to the Backgame?. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES Levenstein, Max 2011:   Maximizing Gammon Chances. TACTICS / PLAYING FOR/SAVING GAMMON Levi, Les B. 1982:   The Life and Times of Gaby Horowitz. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 1982:   The Remarkable Barclay Cooke. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 1983:   Kent Goulding: Backgammon’s Champion of Champions. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 1983:   Monte Carlo Winner Bill Robertie. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 1983:   The Great Atlantic City Backgammon Trial. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL Levick, Ben 1992:   Games of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age. GENERAL / HISTORY Levner, David 1976:   Is Brute Force Backgammon Possible?. MISCELLANEOUS / MATHEMATICS OF BACKGAMMON Levy, David 1998:   Rules for the Game of Trictrac. GENERAL / VARIANTS Liardet, Fabrice 2010:   Committing a match equity table to memory. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2010:   Score cards. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2010:   Slot backgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2011:   See, I was right. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY Lighton, Rodney 2003:   Running a Club Evening Tournament. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS Longacre, John 1930:   Backgammon of Today. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Ly, Danny 1982:   The Legal Status of Backgammon in America. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL

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Mabardi, Georges 1930:   Vanity Fair’s Backgammon to Win. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Madsen, Lasse H. 2003:   Staying Ahead. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY Maffeo, Nick 1980:   Horowitz and Roman's Dynamic Cube Strategy. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Magriel, Paul 1976:   Paul Magriel's Rules of Backgammon. GENERAL / RULES 1980:   All or Nothing at All: A Basket of Eggs. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 1980:   Lowly 1-Point Can Take On Great Importance. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 1984:   Know the Rules. GENERAL / RULES Mamoun, John S. 2018:   Plakoto Board Game Strategy. GENERAL / VARIANTS Mannon, Mike 2011:   Ideal Racing Positions. TACTICS / RACING Mary 1980:   Phillip Martyn on Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 1980:   Cooke and Orléan's Championship Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 1980:   Individual Cubes Variation. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES Masters of Backgammon 2009:   Masters of Backgammon Biographies. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Masters, James 1997:   Backgammon History and Useful Information. GENERAL / HISTORY Matussek, Joachim 2004:   How to calculate exact game winning chances during bearoff. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2006:   Rounding Errors in Match Equity Tables. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES Mayeron, Candace Nyles 1980:   Rulings Column. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES McCollough, Kate 1998:   Heinrich/Woolsey's New Ideas in Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Meese, Butch 1980:   Modified Swiss Movement and Tie Breaker. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1981:   More Michigan Movement. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1981:   Tournament Dos and Don'ts. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2001:   Fundamentals of Tournament Backgammon. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES Merrigan, Nigel 2000:   Match Equities: Simplification vs. Accuracy. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2011:   The Metric Formula. CUBE HANDLING / RACES Money, Paul 2006:   Beginners Please. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2006:   Cube Handling in Races. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2006:   Cube Paradoxes. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 2006:   Introduction to the Doubling Cube. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2006:   Low Anchors. CUBE HANDLING / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Playing High Anchor Games. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Prepared, Alert and Motivated. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY 2006:   Three-Point Match. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2006:   Two-Point Match. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2013:   The Dorbel Daily. STUDY / BLOGS Montgomery, David 1999:   Scientific Steaming. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 2000:   Questions and Answers about Variance Reduction. COMPUTERS / ROLLOUTS 2000:   Variance Reduction. COMPUTERS / ROLLOUTS Morawski, Vic 2008:   The 1930's Understanding of Doubling. GENERAL / HISTORY Morioka, Takao 1987-1991:   Takgammon. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY Mörters, Peter 2001:   Doubling the Stakes and Brownian Motion. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY

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Nathan, Jerry 1982:   Cube Critical in Tournament Play. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1982:   The Best Spot for This Blot. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 1983:   Anticipate Your Opponent's Problems. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 1983:   Off the Bar and Out?. TACTICS / CONTAINMENT New York Times 1977:   Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY Nicholas, Grosvenor 1928:   Modern Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS 1930:   Winning Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Nielsen, Karsten 2004:   Nordic Open Seminar 2004. COMPUTERS / ANALYZING ERRORS 2006:   Snowie Ranking List. MISCELLANEOUS / HONORS 2008:   Bank Roll Management. MISCELLANEOUS / MONEY MANAGEMENT 2008:   Glossary. GENERAL / TERMINOLOGY 2008:   Links. WEB SITES / INDEXES 2008:   Nordic Seminar: Grouping your errors. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2008:   Quiz. STUDY / QUIZZES 2008:   The Internet Style. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS

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Ortega, Antonio 1993:   Communication and Control. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 1993:   Duplication. TACTICS / DUPLICATION 1993:   Magriel’s Criteria for Safe Plays and Bold Plays. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 1993:   Smoothing. TACTICS / RACING 1993:   The Back Game. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 1993:   The Blitz. STRATEGY / ATTACKING GAMES 1993:   The Holding Game. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 1993:   The Priming Game. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES

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Pasko, Jim 1980:   Everything Is a Take. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 1980:   How Little We Know. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS Patz, Anthony 2001:   And the Trailer Doubles. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY Play65 2008:   Interview with Falafel. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 2010:   Mary Hickey, US Open Champion 2010. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Pollack 1996:   Coevolution of a Backgammon Player. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Posner, Kathy 1982:   A Matter of Judgment. TACTICS / ACE-POINT GAMES 1982:   Michelin Chabot's Backgammon, How Much Should You Bet. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 1983:   Jeff Ward's The Doubling Cube. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS

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Racquet and Tennis Club, New York 1931:   Laws of Backgammon, 1931. GENERAL / RULES Ramer, Arthur 1981:   Double-Beaver Revisited. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY Reichert, Axel 2014:   Improved Cube Handling in Races. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2021:   Rough and Ready Rules for Rookies. STRATEGY / OPENINGS Reklaitis, Matt 2000:   Post-Crawford Doubling. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY Rice, Stick 2007:   An Introduction to the Effective Pip Count. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2007:   Bgonline Opening Rollouts. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2008:   31 Things You Need to Know for your First ABT Tournament. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS Richard, Walter L. 1931:   Complete Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Richards, Stanley 2007:   First and Second Moves Chart. STRATEGY / OPENINGS Robertie, Bill 1980:   1979 Monte Carlo World Championship. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 1980:   Doubling Quiz. STUDY / QUIZZES 1980:   Doubling Quiz 2. STUDY / QUIZZES 1981:   Checker Quiz. STUDY / QUIZZES 1982:   1981 Monte Carlo World Championship. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 1982:   Malcolm Davis vs. Chris Peterson. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 1982:   Mike Maxakuli vs. John Karian. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 1982:   Notes on Doubling in Match Play. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1982:   Paul Magriel vs. Berj Abadjian. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 1982:   Test Your Backgammon: Paul Magriel vs. Bill Robertie. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 1983:   In the Beginning: The Opening Moves Revisited. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 1984:   Bill Robertie vs. Simone Naim. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 2006:   Does Your Bot Cheat?. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE 2006:   Doubling in High Anchor Games. CUBE HANDLING / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Duplication. TACTICS / DUPLICATION 2006:   Handling the High Anchor Games. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Hit or No Hit?. TACTICS / HITTING 2006:   More About High Anchor Games. CUBE HANDLING / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   More about Hitting. TACTICS / HITTING 2006:   More on Duplication. TACTICS / DUPLICATION 2006:   Opening Goals. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2006:   Proto-Back Games. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2006:   Proving Your Bot Doesn't Cheat. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE 2006:   The Late Game Blitz. STRATEGY / ATTACKING GAMES 2006:   Two Opening Problems. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2006:   Volunteering a Shot. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 2006:   When Splitting is a Bad Idea. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2007:   Adjusting for the Match Score. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2007:   Build or Hit?. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2007:   Building Structure. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2007:   Checker Play in Back Games. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2007:   Considering All Possibilities. STRATEGY / VISION 2007:   Cube Based Checker Plays. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 2007:   Evaluating Blitzes. CUBE HANDLING / BLITZES 2007:   Evaluating Early Doubles. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 2007:   Handling 6-Primes. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2007:   More about Back Games. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2007:   Playing 2-1 on the Second Roll. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2007:   Playing 2-2 on the Second Roll. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2007:   Switching Gears. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2007:   The Overstretched Position. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 2007:   The Tempo Hit. TACTICS / HITTING 2007:   Two Interesting Back Game Plays. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2013:   Luck in Chess. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2014:   Comparing Games of Skill and Chance. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2015:   Bill Robertie's Backgammon Lessons. STUDY / TIPS 2015:   Bill Robertie's Blog. STUDY / BLOGS 2015:   How to Play Backgammon Chouettes. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 2015:   Robertie’s Rule of 65. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2015:   World Backgammon Championship 1967 to 1979. GENERAL / HISTORY 2016:   A Short History of Modern Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY Roman, Bruce 1979:   Use the Cube As a Weapon, Not As a Gift. STUDY / CUBE PROBLEMS 1980:   An Objective Viewpoint. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 1980:   The Finesse of a Master. STUDY / CUBE PROBLEMS 1981:   Eliminate Emotional Influence. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 1981:   Handling Your Superior Opponent. TACTICS / UNEQUAL PLAYERS 1981:   The First Step in Learning. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 1982:   Considering Potential Gain Versus Potential Loss. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 1982:   The Monday Night Football Fatality. TACTICS / CONTAINMENT 1983:   Strategy for the 80's. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 1983:   The Prime Syndrome. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 1983:   Wanna Bet?. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES Rosenfeld, Patti 1974:   Introduction to Backgammon. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION Ross, Andrew M. 1997:   Enumerating Backgammon Positions: The Perfect Hash. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS 2007:   Estimating Winning Probabilities in Backgammon Races. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS

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Scott, Jay 1998:   The Neural Net Backgammon Programs. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Sejnowski, T.J. 1989:   A Parallel Network that Learns to Play Backgammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Selrahc, B. 1979:   The History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY Sengoku, Sho 2001:   Equity Temperature Map: Introduction. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 2001:   Sho Sengoku's Five Count. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2002:   Arithmetic Techniques. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 2003:   Dice Tables. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 2003:   General Form for Different Pip Counting Systems. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2003:   Graphical Match Equity Charts. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES Senkiewicz, Mike 1981:   A Failure to Communicate?. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 1982:   Conserving Energy. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 1982:   It All Depends: A Guide for Evaluating Positions. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 1982:   Slot That Checker: A Basic Guide to Slotting. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 1982:   Some Unusual Cube Decisions. STUDY / QUIZZES Seret, Jean-Luc 2000:   Count Your Pipples. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2003:   Inside Bearoff. TACTICS / RACING Short, Martin 2001:   Advanced Backgammon Tips. STUDY / TIPS 2001:   Backgammon History. GENERAL / HISTORY 2002:   Wiggins's Boards, Blots, and Double Shots. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Shrake, Edwin 1964:   Everyone for Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY 1974:   On a Dicey Cruise. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES 1975:   Tough Man Across a Table. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Silver, Albert 2002:   Snowie 4: Back to the 80s. COMPUTERS / SNOWIE 2003:   Mec26: A New Match Equity Table. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2003:   Mec26: A ‘New’ Match Equity Table. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2003:   Monte Carlo 2003 World Championship Final. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 2006:   All About Gnu Backgammon. COMPUTERS / GNU BACKGAMMON Silverstein, Lee 1980:   Typographical Errors in Paradoxes and Probabilities. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Simborg, Phil 1994:   Fifteen Ways to Irritate Your Opponent. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 1994:   Give Me a Break--Give It a Number. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 1995:   Backgammon Haikus. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 1995:   Sportsmanlike Conduct. COMPETITION / ETIQUETTE 1996:   Simborg's Laws of Backgammon. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 1997:   A Coin Toss. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 1998:   Chouette is Hell. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 1999:   Why I Never Complain About the Dice. COMPETITION / ETIQUETTE 2000:   Nobody Wants Advice. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 2001:   Third Coast Rules. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 2003:   Alternative Rules to Make the Game Interesting. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2004:   How to Play the Opening Moves. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2004:   Why You Should Teach Your Children Backgammon. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2005:   The Best Play I Ever Made!. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES 2005:   Two-Point Match Strategy. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2005:   When to Double. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2006:   How to Get Better at Backgammon. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2006:   Live Backgammon Tournaments. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2006:   Luck vs. Skill in Backgammon. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2006:   Settlements for Chouette and Money Players. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 2006:   Ten Backgammon Lessons. STUDY / TIPS 2007:   A Beginner's Guide to Backgammon. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 2007:   A Common Problem. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2007:   Alternative Rules to Make Backgammon Interesting. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2007:   Backgammon Equipment. GENERAL / EQUIPMENT 2007:   Going for the Gammon. CUBE HANDLING / GOING FOR GAMMON 2007:   How to Make Tournaments more Fun. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2007:   I am Tired of It. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 2007:   Improving Your Backgammon Game. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2007:   It Amazes Me. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2007:   Learning Backgammon: Breaking Down the Game. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2007:   Make it Pretty. STRATEGY / VISION 2007:   Simborg's Backgammon Tips. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 2007:   The Best Way to Improve Your Backgammon Game. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2007:   The Challenge of Tournament Backgammon. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2007:   The Five Biggest Myths of Backgammon. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 2007:   The Simborg Doubles Conflict Resolution Solution. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2007:   The Snowie Challenge Game. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2008:   A Basic Lesson For All. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2008:   An Exercise in Understanding the Match Play Cube. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2008:   Backgammon Checker Play For Idiots. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2008:   Backgammon Rules of Thumb. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2008:   Chouette Backgammon: How to Win. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 2008:   Close Match Play Strategy. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2008:   Doubling Cube Study. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2008:   How To Learn From Your Mistakes. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2008:   Idiot's Guide to the Doubling Cube. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2008:   Kit Woolsey Revisited. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 2008:   Learning More and More From Snowie. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2008:   Match Equity For Idiots. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2008:   Playing Humans. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 2008:   Proper Etiquette for Backgammon Spectators. COMPETITION / ETIQUETTE 2008:   Reference Positions. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2008:   The Backgammon Blitz. STRATEGY / ATTACKING GAMES 2008:   The Backgammon Doubling Cube Made Simple. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2008:   The Best Way to Make Tough Decisions. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2008:   The Joy of Sets. STUDY / QUIZZES 2009:   Summary of Basic Rules of Tournament Play. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2009:   Taking Your Game to a Higher Level. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2011:   The Phil Simborg Interviews. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 2012:   Tournament Backgammon Rules and Standards Guide. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES 2012:   Urquhart Colorless Counting. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING Simon, Burt 1981:   Comments on the Beaver Controversy. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY Simsek, Ozgur 2005:   Optimal Doubling Strategy against a Sub-Optimal Opponent. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS Sjoqvist, Anders 2011:   Constructing an Evaluation Function for Playing Backgammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Soubeyrand, Catherine 1995:   The Game of Senet. GENERAL / HISTORY Spencer, Joel 1975:   Optimal Doubling in Backgammon. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY Steg, Albert 1995:   Tips on Visiting Backgammon Clubs. COMPETITION / BACKGAMMON CLUBS Stenlund, Andre 2011:   Constructing an Evaluation Function for Playing Backgammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Stephens, Paul 2005:   Dice Rolls and Probability in Backgammon. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 2005:   Paul's Backgammon Vaults. STUDY / RECORDED MATCHES Stocks, Adam 2001:   Ratings: A Mathematical Study. COMPETITION / RATINGS Storer, Marty 2001:   Bagai's Classic Backgammon Revisited. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2008:   Review: Backgammon Openings. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Strato, Michael 1999:   History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY 2001:   GammonVillage interviews Jeremy Bagai. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 2006:   François Tardieu, the New #3 Backgammon Giant. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 2006:   Interview with New World Champion Philip Vischjager. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 2006:   Michael Strato's Rules of Backgammon. GENERAL / RULES 2006:   The Man Behind the World's Biggest Backgammon Event. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 2006:   Victoria Smirnoff Would Invest in Cancer Research. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 2007:   "Money is Not What Interests Me". MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES 2007:   Backgammon Jargon. GENERAL / TERMINOLOGY 2008:   Stepler Seeks to Spread Backgammon in France. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Sutton, Richard S. 1998:   Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING

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Tait, Carl 2000:   Carl Tait's Bibliography. STUDY / BOOK LISTS Tardieu, François 2006:   The Aggression Coefficient Formula for Safe or Bold Bear-ins. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 2007:   Bearoff Tips at DMP. TACTICS / RACING Tesauro, Gerald 1989:   A Parallel Network that Learns to Play Backgammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 1990:   Neurogammon: A Neural-Network Backgammon Program. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 1992:   Practical Issues in Temporal Difference Learning. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 1993:   TD-Gammon, A Self-Teaching Backgammon Program, Achieves Master-Level Play. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 1995:   Temporal Difference Learning and TD-Gammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 2002:   Programming Backgammon Using Self-Teaching Neural Nets. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Thorne, Harold 1930:   Backgammon in 20 Minutes. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS 1931:   Backgammon Tactics. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Thorp, Edward O. 1975:   Backgammon: The Optimal Strategy for the Pure Running Game. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS 1978:   End Positions in Backgammon. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 1979:   The Kelly Money Management System. MISCELLANEOUS / MONEY MANAGEMENT Time Magazine 1973:   The Money Game. GENERAL / HISTORY Todorov, Svilen 1999:   Backgammon in Art. GENERAL / HISTORY Townsend, Robert 2006:   The Northern Michigan Pip Count. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2007:   Basics of Backgammon. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2007:   Dice and Shots. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 2007:   The Cube and the Race. CUBE HANDLING / RACES Trice, Walter 1996:   Your Table Is Waiting. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2000:   Effective Pip Count. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2006:   Contact and the Race. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Desperate Measures. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2006:   End Game Planning. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   How Shall I Win This Game?. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2006:   More Contact Problems. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   On Sniping. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Prime Development. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2006:   Primes vs Blots. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2006:   Two Blots. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 2006:   What to Do When Nothing Is Happening. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES Turner, Stephen 1999:   Calculating and Using Match Equities. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES

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USBGF Rules and Ethics Committee 2016:   USBGF Tournament Rules. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES University of Waterloo 2007:   Backgammon Sets of Different Materials. GENERAL / HISTORY 2010:   Backgammon in a 13th Century Book of Games. GENERAL / HISTORY Urquhart, Robert 2012:   Urquhart Colorless Counting. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING

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Vaughan, C. Wheaton 1930:   Winning Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Veldhuizen, Robert-Jan 2006:   Getting started with GnuBG, a Guided Tour. COMPUTERS / GNU BACKGAMMON Viau, Pierre 2011:   High Fives. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2011:   Sweet Fifteen. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING

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Walling, William H. 1930:   Backgammon Standards. STUDY / BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS Wang, Morten 1997:   The Ten Commandments of Backgammon. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR Ward, Jeff 1980:   End Game Doubling: A Science, Not an Art. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 1980:   The Last Act of a Desperate Man. TACTICS / PLAYING FOR/SAVING GAMMON 1981:   A Fast Way to Record Backgammon Positions. STUDY / RECORDED MATCHES 1981:   Gammon-Saving Quiz. STUDY / QUIZZES 1981:   The Power of a Seven-Point Prime. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 1982:   Stationary Approach. STRATEGY / ATTACKING GAMES 1982:   The Rule of Sevens. TACTICS / PLAYING FOR/SAVING GAMMON 1982:   The Rule of Sevens Revisited. TACTICS / PLAYING FOR/SAVING GAMMON 1983:   The Importance of Middlemen. TACTICS / RACING 1984:   The Magic Triangle. TACTICS / RACING Wattson, Henry 1981:   Double Elimination. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS Wattson, Kate 1982:   A Conversation With Billy Eisenberg. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Weaver, Paul 2001:   Peever's Errors vs. Kit Woolsey. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 2003:   In the Beginning. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME Webb, Alan 2000:   Be a PRAT. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION Wikipedia 2006:   Acey Deucey. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2006:   Backgammon at Wikipedia. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 2006:   Sugoroku. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2006:   Tables (Board Game). GENERAL / VARIANTS Williams, Sean 2013:   5 Ways to Improve Your Backgammon. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE WinningBackgammon.info 2006:   Ten minutes with Philip Vischjager. MISCELLANEOUS / BIOGRAPHIES Winslow, Elliott 1981:   No Defense to the Backgame?. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES Wong, Gary 1998:   Official Backgammon Software Complaint Form. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE Woolsey, Kit 1980:   Match Doubling Quiz. STUDY / QUIZZES 1980:   Two Points To Go. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1981:   Double Ace Quiz. STUDY / QUIZZES 1981:   Goulding's Backgammon with the Champions. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 1981:   Last Chance Match. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 1981:   Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 1982:   Crawford and Beyond. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1982:   Doubling the Player. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 1982:   Evaluating Match Equity. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 1982:   Kennedy and Papazian's Backgammon Master Games. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 1982:   Programming Computers to Play Backgammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 1982:   Six Reasons Not to Double. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 1983:   Do You Know Your Ace-Point Game?. TACTICS / ACE-POINT GAMES 1983:   Magriel-Magriel vs. Davis-Woolsey. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 1983:   The Expert's Error. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 1984:   Is It a Take?. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 1991:   The Doubling Rule. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 1992:   Inside the Database. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 1993:   Kit Woolsey’s Match Equity Table. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 1993:   The Ultimate Pip Count. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 1994:   Annotated Match: Kit Woolsey vs. Jeremy Bagai. STUDY / ANNOTATED GAMES 1996:   Ortega and Madrigal's Backgammon: Costa Rica 1994. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 1996:   The Chess Clock. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1999:   Breaking Up Is Hard to Do. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 1999:   Crawford and Beyond. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1999:   Doubling Theory. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 1999:   Five Point Match. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1999:   Lifeline of a Back Game. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 1999:   Positioning the Cue Ball. STRATEGY / VISION 1999:   Threading the Needle. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 1999:   Viva Las Vegas. STUDY / CUBE PROBLEMS 1999:   When in Rome. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 1999:   Woolsey's Match Equity Table. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2000:   Clocks in Backgammon. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2000:   Computers and Rollouts. COMPUTERS / ROLLOUTS 2000:   Creating Problems. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2000:   Playing for the Gammon. CUBE HANDLING / GOING FOR GAMMON 2000:   The Blitz. CUBE HANDLING / BLITZES 2000:   The Other Side of the Board. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2000:   Using the Bots. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2001:   Backgammon Mathematics. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 2001:   Extra Shots. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 2001:   Nackgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2001:   Only a 4-Cube. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2001:   Reference Positions. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2001:   Saving Sixes. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 2001:   Sixteen Cube. STUDY / CUBE PROBLEMS 2001:   Snowie Equities. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2001:   The Frozen Cube. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2001:   The Most Common Error. STRATEGY / VISION 2001:   What's Your Game Plan?. STRATEGY / VISION 2001:   When God is Wrong. STUDY / CHECKER PROBLEMS 2002:   Bearing in Safely. TACTICS / RACING 2002:   Breaking the Anchor. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2002:   Containment. TACTICS / CONTAINMENT 2002:   Duplication. TACTICS / DUPLICATION 2002:   Memoriable Weekend. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2002:   Oink Oink!. TACTICS / PLAYING FOR/SAVING GAMMON 2002:   Pro Am 2002. STUDY / CUBE PROBLEMS 2002:   The European Split. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 2002:   The Squeeze Play. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 2003:   Avoiding Burger King. STRATEGY / VISION 2003:   Inducing Cube Errors. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 2003:   The Ace Point. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 2003:   The Racer's Edge. TACTICS / RACING 2003:   The Random Point. TACTICS / CONTAINMENT 2003:   Two Away Three Away. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2003:   Vegas 2003. STUDY / CUBE PROBLEMS 2003:   Volatility. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 2008:   Clocks in Backgammon. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS

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Yanko, V.H. 1981:   Complete Backgammon Bibliography. STUDY / BOOK LISTS Youngerman, Hank 1999:   Basic Probabilities, Dice, and the Doubling Cube. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 1999:   Becoming a Better Player. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 1999:   Doubling Theory and Market Losers. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 1999:   Doubling Windows and Special Doubling Situations. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1999:   Match Equity and Doubling Windows. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1999:   Online Chouettes. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 2000:   Reference Positions. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2001:   Backgammon, Gambling on Luck or Gambling on Skill. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2001:   Online Backgammon Dice. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE 2002:   Basic Backgammon Strategies. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2002:   Doubling Cube Strategy. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2002:   RedTop's Backgammon Tips. STUDY / TIPS

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Zadeh, Norman 1977:   On Doubling in Tournament Backgammon. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS 1977:   On Optimal Doubling in Backgammon. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY Zamanian, Alex 2000:   Taking a Big Step Forward. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2001:   Priming vs. Splitting in the Opening. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES Zare, Douglas 2000:   A Measure of Luck. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2000:   Backgammon Ends. MISCELLANEOUS / MATHEMATICS OF BACKGAMMON 2000:   Hedging Toward Skill. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2000:   The Half-Crossover Pipcount. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2001:   Burying vs. Bearing In. TACTICS / RACING 2001:   Gammon Price. TACTICS / PLAYING FOR/SAVING GAMMON 2001:   Ratings: A Mathematical Study. COMPETITION / RATINGS 2002:   Rollouts. COMPUTERS / ROLLOUTS 2003:   The Effective Pip Count. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2003:   Woolsey's Rule in Match Play. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2004:   Undefined Equity. MISCELLANEOUS / MATHEMATICS OF BACKGAMMON 2006:   Normalizing Errors. COMPUTERS / ANALYZING ERRORS 2007:   Late Loose Hits. TACTICS / HITTING 2008:   Wrong Match Equity Table. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2010:   Desperate Races and Kleinman Race Count. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2011:   Across the Scores. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2011:   Dangerous Redoubles. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY

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