Vanity Fair's Backgammon to Win, by Georges Mabardi, Clare Boothe Brokaw

Backgammon Books

Vanity Fair's Backgammon to Win

AUTHORS: Georges Mabardi
Clare Boothe Brokaw

YEAR: 1930

PUBLISHER: Horace Liveright

CITY: New York

PAGES: 158

SIZE: 18 cm high, 13 cm wide

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EDITIONS: The Condé Nast Publications, Inc., 1974

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READERS
COMMENTS:

"This book has a delightful chapter regarding etiquette, which pays the price of admission. There, vividly and hilariously, the authors portray the various characters who populate the board's environs. Backgammon theory may have evolved during the last 60 years, but human nature evidently has not.
Excerpt: 'Even worse than the chortler and the grouser, is the coaxer, that pathetic and heart-breaking wooer of Fate, who announces to his dice box before every throw what sweet sights he would like to see issue from it.'"—Paul Tanenbaum, February 1998

CONTENTS:

Foreward
PART I: FOR THE BEGINNER
I. Mechanics of Play: The Set-up, The Start, Playing the Throws, Taking Up, Object of the Game, Bearing Off, The Double
II. General Strategy: Cardinal Principles, Inner Table Blots, Making Points, The Closed Board, Position, Tactics
PART II: FOR THE EXPERIENCED PLAYER
I. "Modern" Backgammon
II. The Opening Moves
III. The Four Games
IV. General Strategy
V. Bearing Off
VI. The Double
VII. The Odds
PART III: FOR EVERY PLAYER
I. The Etiquette of Backgammon
II. The Authorized Rules for 1931: Notes on the Rules; The Rules for Chouette; Tournaments; Duplicate Backgammon
Axioms for Backgammoners
Glossary