Improve Your Backgammon (Mindsports)

The book examines the concept of equity, of how it is calculated, and how money and match equities differ—not just whether a decision changes in a match, but why it does. Very good book! Read it!

The quality of the materials used could be improved as the covers are quite flimsy but the content is excellent.

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starting out in backgammon の続編。 中級から上級の知識を簡潔に分かりやすく記述しています。 バックギャモンブックを読破された方が次の読む本として適しているとおもいます。お薦め

Not punctual in delivery at all , drivers kept calling me & appeared after a long time without prior notice

Let's face it. The mathematics of doubling, and of evaluating whether or not to double in money games versus match games, is complex. Complex and counter-intuitive. Weird! This book does an excellent job of explaining these complex topics using carefully chosen examples. Beware, the concepts are not for the faint at heart or for those with an I.Q. of less than 130. But if you are willing to really study this highly technical, mathematical material that is beyond most people's math skills, then you will be on the fast track to being able to survive in tournaments and matches. Backgammon checker play is fairly straight forward. It is the doubling cube that makes the game far more abstract and complex. And believe me, if you do not understand every single word and concept in this book, you may become turned into roadkill at any Backgammon interaction that involves the doubling cube, and you simply will not know why you lose all the time! This book may hurt your mind psychologically if you try to learn it, but you will need to do that if you want to enter the Backgammon tournament world and survive.

Excellent book, full of important information, very nice cover. service was great the book arrived on time and in excellent conditrions. The description did not explain clearly the content of the book

Some good concepts but his race formula is highly complex and would take too long when you are playing with a clock. I say that as someone who can do the Klienmann Count (with Art Benjamin's adjustments) in a quick time. His race formula is less accurate than the Klienmann count - I have tested it against a database. He also recommends the formula for take points i.e. risk and reward but really with a clock could you do it? It is better to memorise them. Also some of the positions are wrong - you need to roll them out. It gets 3 starts because it is cheap. I recommend a kindle book for inexpensive good knowledge (it is about money play) "Priority Thinking : a guide to quick and accurate decision making at backgammon" by Clyde Wolpe and Grant Hoffman. The title is something like that and it is inexpensive.