How Good Are You At Backgammon?, by Nicolaos Tzannes, Vassilios (Basil) Tzannes

Backgammon Books

How Good Are You At Backgammon?
75 Challenging Test Situations
for You to Rate Your Ability with the Experts

AUTHORS: Nicolaos Tzannes
Vassilios (Basil) Tzannes

YEAR: 1974

PUBLISHER: Simon and Schuster

CITY: New York

SBN: 671-21814-X

BINDING: Softcover, spiral-bound

PAGES: 160

SIZE: 27 cm high, 21 cm wide

OTHER
EDITIONS: An abridged edition of their 1974 book., 2001

CONTENTS:

Preface
1. Early Stages of the Game
2. Middle Stages of the Game
a. Avoiding a Hit
b. Making, Rejecting or Defending Against a Prime
c. Mutual Primes
d. To Run or Not to Run
e. Go for the Backgame?
f. Miscellaneous (Making Points, Timing Problems, etc.)
3. Last Stages of the Game
a. Bearing Off with No Enemy Pieces
b. Bearing Off with Enemy on the Bar
c. Bearing Off with One Enemy Piece
d. Bearing Off with Two Enemy Pieces
e. bearing Off Against the Backgame
f. Forcing a Blot
g. Avoiding a Gammon or a Backgammon
h. The "Return" Play
4. On Doubling
Appendix: The Use of Probability in the Explanations

BY THE SAME
AUTHOR:

Backgammon Games and Strategies
Nicolaos Tzannes, Vassilios (Basil) Tzannes
1977: A.S. Barnes and Company, South Brunswick