Backgammon Books

  A Handbook of Draughts, with a Chapter on Backgammon
 
 
 

 
  AUTHOR: George F. Pardon
 
  YEAR: 1862
 
  PUBLISHER: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
 
  CITY: New York
 
  BINDING: Hardcover
 
  PAGES: 95
 
  SIZE: 14 cm high, 9 cm wide
 
  NOTE: Only 20 pages are devoted to backgammon.
 
  OTHER
  EDITIONS:
Backgammon and Draughts (or Checkers), 1889

 
  CONTENTS:
   
BACKGAMMON
Origin of the Game
Technical Terms of the Game
How the Game is Played
Hoyle's Hints, Observations, and Cautions
Directions for Bearing your Men
The Laws of Backgammon
General Instructions
Playing at Setting Out the thirty-six Chances of the Dice for a Gammon or a Single Hit
How to Play for Chances when you play only for a Hit
Back-Game
A Case of Curiosity
Critical Case for a Back-Game
Calculation of Chances
 
  BY THE SAME
  AUTHOR:
   Backgammon: Its History and Practice
George F. Pardon
1844: D. Bogue, London
   Backgammon: Its Theory and Practice
With Something of Its History
George F. Pardon
1858: C. H. Clarke, London
   Comic Backgammon
George F. Pardon
1931: Barry Vail Corporation, New York




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