Backgammon Books

  Goren's Modern Backgammon Complete
 
 
 

 
  AUTHOR: Charles H. Goren
 
  YEAR: 1974
 
  PUBLISHER: A Chancellor Hall book published by Cornerstone Library
 
  CITY: New York
 
  ISBN: 0-346-12296-1
 
  BINDING: Softcover
 
  PAGES: 192
 
  SIZE: 20 cm high, 13 cm wide
 
  NOTE: Technical Consultant: Charles Papazian
 
  OTHER
  EDITIONS:
Hardcover

 
  CONTENTS:
   
Foreword
I  Introduction to Backgammon and its strategy
II  The opening moves: Summary of the opening moves
III  The middle game
IV  Bringing home your men
V  Bearing off: the stretch run
VI  The doubling cube: key to winning
ILLUSTRATIVE GAMES
VII  The straight race
VIII  The positional game
IX  The wipeout
X  The back game: retreat to victory
XI  Backgammon variants (including the new "Roll-over")
XII  Handicaps
Official Rules of Backgammon
Glossary
 
  COVER: No game recently has caught the public's fancy quite the way that backgammon has. Though as old as chess, until lately backgammon was a very popular agme only in the Near East. Suddenly it has become Society's pet, with the public eager to follow.
      Backgammon combines the skill of good paly with the thrill of good luck. Though the roll of the dice determines each move, it is how you make the move that is the key to winning play.
      Modern Backgammon Complete shows the fast way to master the game—it combines: precise instruction; high-skill winning tips; illustrative games, roll by roll; the four basic strategies (running game, blocking game, flexible game, back game).
      Here, too, is the latest in backgammon theory—the daring new moves that have enabled the new school of experts to dethrone the old-time champs.
      More than 200 diagrams and some illustrative games, analyzed and explained moved by move, make the instructions easy to follow and the intricacies of backgammon disappear even without the help of a backgammon board. Goren's Modern Backgammon Complete is the quick, simple way to master this fascinating game.




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