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Backgammon Books
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How to Play Tournament Backgammon
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AUTHOR:
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Kit Woolsey
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YEAR:
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1993
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PUBLISHER:
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The Gammon Press
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CITY:
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Arlington, MA
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BINDING:
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Softcover, staple-bound
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PAGES:
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50
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SIZE:
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28 cm high, 21 cm wide
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READERS
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"How To Play Tournament Backgammon is more along the lines of a white paper rather than a book. It is definitely for intermediate or advanced players to appreciate what it is conveying."—Allen Adams
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"Describes how cube handling varies in matches. It shows how to compute push and cash points, recube equity, how to figure gammon costs, etc. It gives Kit's new (for 1993) match equity chart and a method for remembering most of it fairly well."—Michael Zehr
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"Unfortunately I don't think there is a complete introduction to match play. Kit Woolsey's How To Play Tournament Backgammon is too short, little more than a pamphlet, and I don't think it is his best writing on the subject. More common than trying to understand how to handle an 8-cube at 11-away 19-away is trying to understand the nuances of the 5 point match, and he wrote an excellent introduction to that in his magazine, GammOnline."--Douglas Zare, February 2003
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CONTENTS:
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Introduction
Crawford Game Strategies
Post-Crawford Play: The Free Drop; Mandatory Doubling
The Two-Away versus Two-Away Score
The Match Equity Table
Learning the Table: Gain-Loss Tables; The Doubling Window
Initial Cube Decisions at Various Scores
Redoubles and Cube Leverage
Cube Leverage in Gammonish Positions
Gammon Potential and Checker Play
Five Practical Examples
An Illustrative Game: Woolsey-Robertie, Reno 1993
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BY THE SAME
AUTHOR:
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Philip Marmorstein versus Michael Greiner
Kit Woolsey
1994: The Gammon Press, Arlington, MA
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Mika Lidov versus Hal Heinrich
Kit Woolsey
1994: The Gammon Press, Arlington, MA
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Joe Sylvester versus Nack Ballard
Kit Woolsey
1994: The Gammon Press, Arlington, MA
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New Ideas In Backgammon
Kit Woolsey, Hal Heinrich
1996: The Gammon Press, Arlington, MA
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Backgammon: Master Versus Amateur, Volume 1
Kit Woolsey
2000: The Gammon Press, Arlington, MA
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The Backgammon Encyclopedia, Volume 1
Cube Reference Positions
Kit Woolsey
2002: The Gammon Press, Arlington, MA
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Understanding Backgammon
Lessons for Serious Players
Kit Woolsey, Tami Jones
2003: The Gammon Press, Arlinton, MA
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52 Great Backgammon Tips
At home, tournament and online
Patti Beadles, Kit Woolsey
2007: Batsford, London
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