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ABT 2007:   U.S. Backgammon Clock Rules and Procedures (2007). COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES 2008:   U.S. Backgammon Tournament Rules and Procedures (2009). COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES Albert, Jim 1996:   Introduction to Probability. TACTICS / PROBABILITY Ash, Greg 1997:   Backgammon ACT Chouette Rules. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 1997:   Backgammon ACT Tournament Rules. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES

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Backgammon.org 2006:   Interview With The Backgammon Player Phil Simborg. MISCELLANEOUS / INTERVIEWS Bagai, Jeremy 1994:   Annotated Match: Kit Woolsey vs. Jeremy Bagai. STUDY / ANNOTATED MATCHES 2007:   EMG Woes: Toward a More Consistent Normalization of Match-Play Errors. COMPUTERS / ANALYZING POSITIONS Ballard, Nack 2001:   Naccel: a[N accel]erated Pipcount. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2003:   In the Beginning. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2007:   Backgammon Jargon. GENERAL / TERMINOLOGY 2008:   Nactation. STRATEGY / OPENINGS Barnhart, Joy Lee 1998:   History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY Barto, Andrew G. 1998:   Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Bastian, Kevin 1998:   The FIBS Rating System. COMPETITION / RATINGS Beadle, Mark 1992:   Games of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age. GENERAL / HISTORY Beadles, Patti 1995:   FIBS dice analysis. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE Benjamin, Arthur 2007:   Estimating Winning Probabilities in Backgammon Races. CUBE HANDLING / RACES Berger, Frank 2009:   Making the World's Smallest Backgammon Expert. COMPUTERS / OTHER BOTS Bidal, Jay 2007:   Towards a Better Method of Recording Backgammon Games. STUDY / RECORDED MATCHES Bigot, Bernard 2003:   Inside Bearoff. TACTICS / RACING Blath, Jochen 2001:   Doubling the Stakes and Brownian Motion. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY Bower, Chuck 1999:   History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY 1999:   Rankings and Ratings. COMPETITION / RATINGS 2001:   Quantifying Backgammon Skill. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2001:   Snowie Parameter Settings. COMPUTERS / SNOWIE 2001:   Understanding Uncertainty. COMPUTERS / ROLLOUTS 2008:   A study of digital clock usage in 7-point matches. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS Bray, Chris 1998:   R.I.P. Inside Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY Buro, Michael 1999:   Efficient Approximation of Backgammon Race Equities. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS

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Cattanach, Gregg 2003:   ABA Chouette Rules. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES Clark, Stephen 2000:   Panic City. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS Collins, Ed 2002:   Ed's Backgammon Problems. STUDY / QUIZZES 2005:   Dice and the Laws of Probability. TACTICS / PROBABILITY Condos, Vassilis 2006:   Tavli (Greek Backgammon). GENERAL / VARIANTS Crane, Michael 2000:   A Look at the Golden Point. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2000:   Crane Rules. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES 2000:   Starting a Backgammon Club. COMPETITION / BACKGAMMON CLUBS 2000:   Tavla in Turkey. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2000:   The Pip-Count of Monte Cristo. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2006:   BIBA Backgammon Rules and Procedures. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES Crawford, John R. 1970:   History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY

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Dahl, Fredrik 1998:   Jellyfish 3.5 Dice Algorithm. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE Damish, Mark 1995:   Backgammon Frequently Asked Questions. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 1995:   Basic Strategy for Beginners. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 1995:   Other games played on a backgammon board. GENERAL / VARIANTS Davis, Bill 1996:   Chicago Bar Point Club Tournament Procedure. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1996:   Forming and Operating a Backgammon Club. COMPETITION / BACKGAMMON CLUBS 1999:   The Great Prime Problem. MISCELLANEOUS / PUZZLES 2005:   American Backgammon Tour. MISCELLANEOUS / HONORS 2006:   Pyramid Backgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2009:   Backgammon and Doubling: Just the Facts. GENERAL / HISTORY Derryberry, DeWayne 2002:   Sample Size and Computer Roll-Outs. COMPUTERS / ROLLOUTS Driver, Mark 2000:   A History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY 2001:   Flow: The Power of One. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY 2001:   Kleinman's Vision Laughs at Counting. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2001:   Lamford's Starting Out in Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2001:   The Art of War: The Tao of Backgammon. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY 2001:   Two Worlds Collide: Casual and Formal Backgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2001:   Winning Magick. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY 2002:   Cooke/Orlean's Championship Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2004:   Sydney Backgammon FAQ. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION

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Flanagan, Steve 2003:   Beginners and Bots. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE Friedman, Roy 1993:   Ortega's Fascinating Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Frigo, Frank 2006:   About Luck and Skill in Backgammon and Poker. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2006:   What Lies Beyond the Board?. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS

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Gambling Online Magazine 2006:   John Clark: 30 Years of Backgammon. MISCELLANEOUS / INTERVIEWS Games Magazine 1982:   A Backgammon Gamble Pays Off. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL GamesGrid 1998:   Basic Strategy. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2005:   GamesGrid FAQ: Random Number Generator. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE GammonSite 2004:   How Rolls Are Generated at GammonSite. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE GammonVillage 2000:   Backgammon Dictionary. GENERAL / TERMINOLOGY Gay, Dean 2007:   Cluster Counting Revisited. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING Gerace, Ric 2001:   My Bumpy Life in Backgammon. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES Gibson, Patrick 2004:   Gammon Associates Digital Clock Rules. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES Grater, Art 2004:   The Backgammon Portal Bibliography. STUDY / BOOK LISTS

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Hansen, Michael Bo 1998:   Michael's 432 Rule. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS Heinrich, Hal 1999:   Initial Doubles. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS Hervén, Markus 2009:   Making the World's Smallest Backgammon Expert. COMPUTERS / OTHER BOTS Heuler, Oliver 2002:   How to Use Snowie More Efficiently. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE Hickey, Mary 2000:   How to Study Your Own Matches. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2001:   GGraccoon Speaks Out. STUDY / ANNOTATED POSITIONS 2003:   GGraccoon Speaks Out Again. STUDY / ANNOTATED POSITIONS 2006:   A Time for Letting Go. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Another Great Back Game to Avoid. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2006:   Are You Sure it is a Back Game?. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2006:   Attack or Prime?. STRATEGY / ATTACKING GAMES 2006:   Committing to Containment. TACTICS / CONTAINMENT 2006:   Exception to Attacking a Single Back Checker. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2006:   Game Plan Selection. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2006:   Planning to Play to Win. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2006:   Prime Time?. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2006:   When it Pays to be Greedy. STRATEGY / ATTACKING GAMES 2007:   Kill or Let Die?. STRATEGY / ATTACKING GAMES 2007:   Playing Against a Five-Point Block. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES Hisako 2006:   Backgammon Quotes and Tips. STUDY / TIPS Hoffman, Grant 2001:   Dice Counting, an Alternative to Pip Counting. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING Hoffman, Jackie 2001:   Dice Counting, an Alternative to Pip Counting. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING Hollands, Roy 2001:   Double? Take? The Mathematical View. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY Hristov, Iancho 2006:   Snowie Ranking List. MISCELLANEOUS / HONORS Huebener, Hardy 2005:   Hardy's Book Suggestions. STUDY / BOOK SUGGESTIONS 2006:   Tabular History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY 2006:   Words of Wisdom. STUDY / TIPS 2007:   Backgammon in Advertisements. MISCELLANEOUS / PHOTOS 2007:   Hardy's Backgammon FAQ. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 2007:   Hardy's Match Archive. STUDY / RECORDED MATCHES

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Inter-Club League of New York 1970:   Laws of Backgammon, 1970. GENERAL / RULES International Backgammon Association 1969:   IBA Rules, 1969. GENERAL / RULES 1970:   Laws of Backgammon, 1970. GENERAL / RULES

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Jacobs, Jake 2000:   Shoot the Chouette. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES 2005:   Trice's Backgammon Boot Camp. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2006:   Bray's What Colour is the Wind?. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2006:   Heinrich/Woolsey's New Ideas in Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2006:   Lamford's Improve Your Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2006:   Robertie's Backgammon for Serious Players. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2006:   Robertie's Modern Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2006:   Wiggins's Boards, Blots, and Double Shots. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Jacoby, Oswald 1970:   History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY Janowski, Rick 1993:   Take-Points in Money Games. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY Jensen, Peter Max Friis 2001:   Chouette Rules. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 2003:   Backgammon Quiz. STUDY / QUIZZES 2003:   Doubling Strategy in Backgammon. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 2003:   Start and Return Rolls. STRATEGY / OPENINGS

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Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos V. 2005:   Optimal Doubling Strategy against a Sub-Optimal Opponent. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS Katz, Stu 1994:   Give Me a Break--Give It a Number. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR Keith, Tom 1995:   How to Compute a Match Equity Table. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 1995:   Match Play Doubling Strategy. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1995:   Rules of Backgammon. GENERAL / RULES 1996:   Motif Backgammon Player Engine. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 2004:   Backgammon Books Worth Reading. STUDY / BOOK SUGGESTIONS 2004:   Backgammon Variants. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2004:   Cube Handling in Noncontact Positions. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2004:   How to Play Acey-Deucey. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2004:   How to Run a Chouette. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 2005:   Backgammon Galore FAQ. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 2005:   Backgammon Opening Replies. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2005:   Introduction to the Rules of Backgammon. GENERAL / RULES 2005:   Rollouts of Opening Replies. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2006:   How to Play the Opening Rolls. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2006:   Introduction to Match Play. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2006:   Introduction to Ratings. COMPETITION / RATINGS 2006:   Rollouts of Opening Moves. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2006:   The Many Games of Backgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2007:   Backgammon Galore Glossary. GENERAL / TERMINOLOGY 2007:   What is 'Nactation'. STRATEGY / OPENINGS Kerr, Neville 2007:   World Champions of Backgammon. MISCELLANEOUS / HONORS Kissane, Jack 1992:   Cluster Counting. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING Koca, Bob 2007:   Curing Your Short Bearoff Blues. TACTICS / RACING Konik, Michael 1999:   Backgammon Hustler. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES Kulseth, Stein 2000:   A Position from Jemimah's Past. MISCELLANEOUS / PUZZLES 2000:   Barry Fisk and the Early Cube. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES 2000:   Jemimah Plays Nackgammon—Not. MISCELLANEOUS / PUZZLES 2000:   Jemimah's Beaver Creek Double. MISCELLANEOUS / PUZZLES

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Lamford, Paul 2000:   Too Good? Too Bad!. CUBE HANDLING / GOING FOR GAMMON 2001:   Hit or Bust. STUDY / QUIZZES 2001:   Take It or Leave It. STUDY / QUIZZES Landwehr, Bob 2000:   The Making of Bob's Backgammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Levermann, Johannes 2002:   Primes and Snowie 4. COMPUTERS / SNOWIE Levick, Ben 1992:   Games of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age. GENERAL / HISTORY Levy, David 1998:   Rules for the Game of Trictrac. GENERAL / VARIANTS Lezard, Tony 2006:   Dueller Recorded Matches. STUDY / RECORDED MATCHES Lighton, Rodney 2003:   Running a Club Evening Tournament. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS

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Madsen, Lasse H. 2003:   Staying Ahead. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY Magriel, Paul 1976:   Paul Magriel's Rules of Backgammon. GENERAL / RULES Master Games 1999:   Acey Deucey. GENERAL / VARIANTS Masters, James 1997:   Backgammon History and Useful Information. GENERAL / HISTORY McCollough, Kate 1998:   Heinrich/Woolsey's New Ideas in Backgammon. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS McIntosh, Richard 1997:   Backgammon by the Bay Annotated Games. STUDY / ANNOTATED MATCHES 1998:   Backgammon by the Bay Tournament Rules. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES Meese, Butch 2001:   Fundamentals of Tournament Backgammon. GENERAL / RULES 2001:   U.S. Backgammon Tournament Rules & Procedures (2001). COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES Merrigan, Nigel 2000:   Match Equities: Simplification vs. Accuracy. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES Money, Paul 2006:   Beginners Please. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2006:   Cube Handling in Races. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2006:   Cube Paradoxes. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 2006:   Introduction to the Doubling Cube. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2006:   Low Anchors. CUBE HANDLING / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Playing High Anchor Games. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Prepared, Alert and Motivated. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY 2006:   Three-Point Match. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2006:   Two-Point Match. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY Montgomery, David 1999:   Scientific Steaming. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 2000:   Questions and Answers about Variance Reduction. COMPUTERS / ROLLOUTS 2000:   Variance Reduction. COMPUTERS / ROLLOUTS Morawski, Vic 2008:   The 1930's Understanding of Doubling. GENERAL / HISTORY Morioka, Takao 1987-1991:   Takgammon. STRATEGY / PSYCHOLOGY Mörters, Peter 2001:   Doubling the Stakes and Brownian Motion. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY

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Nielsen, Karsten 2004:   Nordic Open Seminar 2004. COMPUTERS / ANALYZING POSITIONS 2006:   Snowie Ranking List. MISCELLANEOUS / HONORS

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Oasya SA 2003:   Matches Analyzed by Snowie. STUDY / RECORDED MATCHES

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Patz, Anthony 2001:   And the Trailer Doubles. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY

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Racquet and Tennis Club, New York 1931:   Laws of Backgammon, 1931. GENERAL / RULES Reklaitis, Matt 2000:   Post-Crawford Doubling. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY Rice, Stick 2007:   Bgonline Opening Rollouts. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2008:   31 Things You Need to Know for your First ABT Tournament. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS Richards, Stanley 2007:   First and Second Moves Chart. STRATEGY / OPENINGS Robertie, Bill 2006:   Does Your Bot Cheat?. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE 2006:   Doubling in High Anchor Games. CUBE HANDLING / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Duplication. TACTICS / DUPLICATION 2006:   Handling the High Anchor Games. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Hit or No Hit?. TACTICS / HITTING 2006:   More About High Anchor Games. CUBE HANDLING / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   More about Hitting. TACTICS / HITTING 2006:   More on Duplication. TACTICS / DUPLICATION 2006:   Opening Goals. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2006:   Proto-Back Games. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2006:   Proving Your Bot Doesn't Cheat. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE 2006:   The Late Game Blitz. STRATEGY / ATTACKING GAMES 2006:   Two Opening Problems. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2006:   Volunteering a Shot. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 2006:   When Splitting is a Bad Idea. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2007:   Adjusting for the Match Score. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2007:   An Unusual Back Game. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 2007:   Build or Hit?. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2007:   Building Structure. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2007:   Checker Play in Back Games. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2007:   Considering All Possibilities. STRATEGY / VISION 2007:   Evaluating Blitzes. CUBE HANDLING / BLITZES 2007:   Evaluating Early Doubles. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 2007:   Handling 6-Primes. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2007:   More about Back Games. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2007:   More about Proto-Back Games. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2007:   Playing 2-1 on the Second Roll. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2007:   Playing 2-2 on the Second Roll. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2007:   Playing 3-2 on the Second Roll. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2007:   Playing for the Gammon. TACTICS / RACING 2007:   Switching Gears. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2007:   The Overstretched Position. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 2007:   The Tempo Hit. TACTICS / HITTING 2007:   Two Interesting Back Game Plays. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 2007:   When the Cube Makes a Difference. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS Ross, Andrew M. 2007:   Estimating Winning Probabilities in Backgammon Races. CUBE HANDLING / RACES

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Scott, Jay 1998:   The Neural Net Backgammon Programs. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Sengoku, Sho 2002:   Arithmetic Techniques. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 2003:   Dice Tables. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 2003:   General Form for Different Pip Counting Systems. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2003:   Graphical Match Equity Charts. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2003:   Sho Sengoku's Five Count. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING Seret, Jean-Luc 2000:   Count Your Pipples. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2003:   Inside Bearoff. TACTICS / RACING Short, Martin 2001:   Backgammon History. GENERAL / HISTORY 2001:   Becker's Backgammon for Blood. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 2001:   Champions of Major Tournaments. MISCELLANEOUS / HONORS 2001:   Serious Backgammon Tips. STUDY / TIPS 2002:   Wiggins's Boards, Blots, and Double Shots. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Silver, Albert 2002:   Snowie 4: Back to the 80s. COMPUTERS / SNOWIE 2003:   Mec26: A New Match Equity Table. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2003:   Monte Carlo 2003 World Championship Final. STUDY / ANNOTATED MATCHES 2006:   All About Gnu Backgammon. COMPUTERS / GNU BACKGAMMON Simborg, Phil 1994:   Fifteen Ways to Irritate Your Opponent. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 1994:   Give Me a Break--Give It a Number. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 1995:   Backgammon Haikus. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 1995:   Sportsmanlike Conduct. COMPETITION / ETIQUETTE 1996:   Simborg's Laws of Backgammon. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 1997:   A Coin Toss. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 1998:   Chouette is Hell. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 1999:   Why I Never Complain About the Dice. COMPETITION / ETIQUETTE 2000:   Nobody Wants Advice. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 2001:   Third Coast Rules. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 2003:   Alternative Rules to Make the Game Interesting. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2004:   How to Play the Opening Moves. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2004:   Why You Should Teach Your Children Backgammon. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2005:   The Best Play I Ever Made!. MISCELLANEOUS / STORIES 2005:   Two-Point Match Strategy. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2005:   When to Double. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2006:   Backgammon Quiz. STUDY / QUIZZES 2006:   How to Get Better at Backgammon. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2006:   Live Backgammon Tournaments. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2006:   Luck vs. Skill in Backgammon. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2006:   Settlements for Chouette and Money Players. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 2006:   Ten Backgammon Lessons. STUDY / TIPS 2007:   A Beginner's Guide to Backgammon. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 2007:   A Common Problem. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2007:   Alternative Rules to Make Backgammon Interesting. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2007:   Backgammon Equipment. GENERAL / EQUIPMENT 2007:   Going for the Gammon. CUBE HANDLING / GOING FOR GAMMON 2007:   How to Make Tournaments more Fun. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2007:   I am Tired of It. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 2007:   Improving Your Backgammon Game. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2007:   It Amazes Me. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2007:   Learning Backgammon: Breaking Down the Game. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2007:   Make it Pretty. STRATEGY / VISION 2007:   Simborg's Backgammon Tips. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR 2007:   The Best Way to Improve Your Backgammon Game. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2007:   The Challenge of Tournament Backgammon. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2007:   The Five Biggest Myths of Backgammon. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 2007:   The Simborg Doubles Conflict Resolution Solution. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2007:   The Snowie Challenge Game. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2008:   A Basic Lesson For All. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2008:   An Exercise in Understanding the Match Play Cube. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2008:   Backgammon Checker Play For Idiots. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2008:   Backgammon Rules of Thumb. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2008:   Chouette Backgammon: How to Win. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 2008:   Close Match Play Strategy. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2008:   Doubling Cube Study. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2008:   How To Learn From Your Mistakes. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2008:   Idiot's Guide to the Doubling Cube. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2008:   Kit Woolsey Revisited. STUDY / ANNOTATED POSITIONS 2008:   Learning More and More From Snowie. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2008:   Match Equity For Idiots. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2008:   Playing Humans. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 2008:   Proper Etiquette for Backgammon Spectators. COMPETITION / ETIQUETTE 2008:   Reference Positions. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2008:   The Backgammon Blitz. STRATEGY / ATTACKING GAMES 2008:   The Backgammon Doubling Cube Made Simple. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2008:   The Best Way to Make Tough Decisions. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2008:   The Joy of Sets. STUDY / QUIZZES 2009:   Summary of Basic Rules of Tournament Play. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2009:   Taking Your Game to a Higher Level. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE Simsek, Ozgur 2005:   Optimal Doubling Strategy against a Sub-Optimal Opponent. MISCELLANEOUS / ACADEMIC PAPERS Skillman, Beth 1998:   A Virtual Tour of a Backgammon Tournament. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1998:   Backgammon by the Bay Tournament Rules. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENT RULES Snowie 2006:   MatchQiz Demo Match. STUDY / ANNOTATED MATCHES Soubeyrand, Catherine 1995:   The Game of Senet. GENERAL / HISTORY Steg, Albert 1995:   Tips on Visiting Backgammon Clubs. COMPETITION / BACKGAMMON CLUBS Stephens, Paul 2005:   Dice Rolls and Probability in Backgammon. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 2005:   Paul's Backgammon Vaults. STUDY / RECORDED MATCHES Stocks, Adam 2001:   Ratings: A Mathematical Study. COMPETITION / RATINGS Storer, Marty 2001:   Bagai's Classic Backgammon Revisited. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Strato, Michael 1999:   History of Backgammon. GENERAL / HISTORY 2006:   François Tardieu, the New #3 Backgammon Giant. MISCELLANEOUS / INTERVIEWS 2006:   Michael Strato's Rules of Backgammon. GENERAL / RULES Sutton, Richard S. 1998:   Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING

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Tait, Carl 2000:   Carl Tait's Bibliography. STUDY / BOOK LISTS Tanenbaum, Paul 1998:   Mabardi's Vanity Fair's Backgammon to Win. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS Tardieu, François 2006:   The Aggression Coefficient Formula for Safe or Bold Bear-ins. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 2007:   Bearoff Tips at DMP. TACTICS / RACING Tesauro, Gerald 1992:   Practical Issues in Temporal Difference Learning. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING 1995:   Temporal Difference Learning and TD-Gammon. COMPUTERS / PROGRAMMING Townsend, Robert 2006:   The Northern Michigan Pip Count. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2007:   Basics of Backgammon. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2007:   Dice and Shots. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 2007:   The Cube and the Race. CUBE HANDLING / RACES Trice, Walter 2000:   Effective Pip Count. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 2006:   Contact and the Race. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Desperate Measures. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2006:   End Game Planning. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   How Shall I Win This Game?. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2006:   More Contact Problems. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   On Sniping. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2006:   Prime Development. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2006:   Primes vs Blots. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES 2006:   Two Blots. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 2006:   What to Do When Nothing Is Happening. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES Turner, Stephen 1999:   Calculating and Using Match Equities. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY

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University of Waterloo 2007:   Elliott Avedon Museum of Games. GENERAL / HISTORY

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Veldhuizen, Robert-Jan 2006:   Getting started with GnuBG, a Guided Tour. COMPUTERS / GNU BACKGAMMON

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Wang, Morten 1997:   The Ten Commandments of Backgammon. MISCELLANEOUS / HUMOR Weaver, Paul 2001:   Peever's Errors vs. Kit Woolsey. STUDY / ANNOTATED POSITIONS 2003:   In the Beginning. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2007:   Backgammon Jargon. GENERAL / TERMINOLOGY Webb, Alan 2000:   Be a PRAT. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION Wikipedia 2006:   Acey Deucey. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2006:   Backgammon at Wikipedia. GENERAL / INTRODUCTION 2006:   Sugoroku. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2006:   Tables (Board Game). GENERAL / VARIANTS WinningBackgammon.info 2006:   Ten minutes with Philip Vischjager. MISCELLANEOUS / INTERVIEWS Wong, Gary 1998:   Official Backgammon Software Complaint Form. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE Woodhead, Simon 2006:   Recommended Reading. STUDY / BOOK SUGGESTIONS Woolsey, Kit 1991:   The Doubling Rule. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 1993:   The Ultimate Pip Count. CUBE HANDLING / RACES 1994:   Annotated Match: Kit Woolsey vs. Jeremy Bagai. STUDY / ANNOTATED MATCHES 1996:   Ortega/Madrigal/Kleinman's Backgammon: Costa Rica 1994. STUDY / BOOK REVIEWS 1996:   The Chess Clock. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 1999:   Breaking Up Is Hard to Do. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 1999:   Crawford and Beyond. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1999:   Doubling Theory. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 1999:   Five Point Match. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1999:   Lifeline of a Back Game. STRATEGY / BACK GAMES 1999:   Positioning the Cue Ball. STRATEGY / VISION 1999:   Quiz Problems. STUDY / QUIZZES 1999:   Threading the Needle. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 1999:   Viva Las Vegas. STUDY / ANNOTATED POSITIONS 1999:   When in Rome. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 1999:   Woolsey's Match Equity Table. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2000:   Clocks in Backgammon. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS 2000:   Computers and Rollouts. COMPUTERS / ROLLOUTS 2000:   Creating Problems. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2000:   Playing for the Gammon. CUBE HANDLING / GOING FOR GAMMON 2000:   The Blitz. CUBE HANDLING / BLITZES 2000:   The Other Side of the Board. STRATEGY / EARLY GAME 2000:   The Worst Move in the World. MISCELLANEOUS / PUZZLES 2000:   Using the Bots. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 2001:   Backgammon Mathematics. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 2001:   Extra Shots. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 2001:   Nackgammon. GENERAL / VARIANTS 2001:   Only a 4-Cube. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2001:   Reference Positions. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2001:   Saving Sixes. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 2001:   Sixteen Cube. STUDY / ANNOTATED POSITIONS 2001:   Snowie Equities. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH EQUITIES 2001:   The Frozen Cube. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2001:   The Most Common Error. STRATEGY / VISION 2001:   What's Your Game Plan?. STRATEGY / VISION 2001:   When God is Wrong. STUDY / ANNOTATED POSITIONS 2002:   Bearing in Safely. TACTICS / RACING 2002:   Breaking the Anchor. STRATEGY / HOLDING GAMES 2002:   Containment. TACTICS / CONTAINMENT 2002:   Duplication. TACTICS / DUPLICATION 2002:   Memoriable Weekend. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2002:   Oink Oink!. TACTICS / TAKING RISKS 2002:   Pro Am 2002. STUDY / ANNOTATED POSITIONS 2002:   The European Split. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 2002:   The Squeeze Play. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 2003:   Avoiding Burger King. STRATEGY / VISION 2003:   Inducing Cube Errors. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 2003:   The Ace Point. TACTICS / GENERAL TACTICS 2003:   The Racer's Edge. TACTICS / RACING 2003:   The Random Point. TACTICS / CONTAINMENT 2003:   Two Away Three Away. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 2003:   Vegas 2003. STUDY / ANNOTATED POSITIONS 2003:   Volatility. CUBE HANDLING / MISCELLANEOUS 2006:   MatchQiz Demo Match. STUDY / ANNOTATED MATCHES 2008:   Clocks in Backgammon. COMPETITION / TOURNAMENTS

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Yahoo Games 1999:   Introduction to Backgammon Strategy. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY Youngerman, Hank 1999:   Basic Probabilities, Dice, and the Doubling Cube. TACTICS / PROBABILITY 1999:   Becoming a Better Player. STUDY / HOW TO IMPROVE 1999:   Doubling Theory and Market Losers. CUBE HANDLING / CUBE THEORY 1999:   Doubling Windows and Special Doubling Situations. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1999:   Match Equity and Doubling Windows. CUBE HANDLING / MATCH PLAY 1999:   Online Chouettes. COMPETITION / CHOUETTES 2000:   Reference Positions. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2001:   Backgammon, Gambling on Luck or Gambling on Skill. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2001:   Online Backgammon Dice. COMPUTERS / COMPUTER DICE 2002:   Basic Backgammon Strategies. STRATEGY / BASIC STRATEGY 2002:   Doubling Cube Strategy. CUBE HANDLING / INTRODUCTION 2002:   RedTop's Backgammon Tips. STUDY / TIPS

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Zamanian, Alex 2000:   Taking a Big Step Forward. STRATEGY / OPENINGS 2001:   Priming vs. Splitting in the Opening. STRATEGY / PRIMING GAMES Zare, Douglas 2000:   A Measure of Luck. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2000:   Backgammon Ends. MISCELLANEOUS / THEORY 2000:   Hedging Toward Skill. COMPETITION / LUCK VS SKILL 2000:   The Half-Crossover Pipcount. CUBE HANDLING / PIP COUNTING 2001:   Burying vs. Bearing In. TACTICS / RACING 2001:   Ratings: A Mathematical Study. COMPETITION / RATINGS 2007:   Late Loose Hits. TACTICS / HITTING

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