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  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




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