Backgammon Magazines & E-zines

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GammOnLine

From:   sevenout
Address:   kingstalker2000@yahoo.com
Date:   2 May 2004
Subject:   Gammonline worth Subscribing too?
Forum:   rec.games.backgammon
Google:   c697b226.0405022254.25ac77b@posting.google.com

I have heard some people say that this online magazine isnt as good as it used to be, is it worth subscribing to?

Michael Sullivan writes:

It's not as good as it used to be because Kit has stopped writing articles and doing match annotations, but he's announced this and made it cheaper -- he's no longer charging per year, just a one time fee of $36, and you get 3-4 years worth of archives for that. There's easily enough information there to make 2 or 3 good books. I've been a subscriber for over a year now, and I still haven't made it through all of the archives, so if it was worth $36/yr to you before, it's more than worth $36 one time now, just for the archives. Plus, the online match and discussion board will go on indefinitely, and they are easily worth the one-time $36 cost by themselves.

happyjuggler0 writes:

Definitely worth the money. There are 3 very distinct parts to GOL that make it worth it just on any 1 part alone. First, there is a large archive of past issues with fabulous articles and puzzles too. This is like buying several books that contain various subjects that are too small to fit in a book by itself in my opinion. Second, there is the forum. Several very strong players (including Neil Kazaross) post there all the time with interesting positions and folks post questions about gnu, MET's and other bg questions and get great,reliable answers. Good board graphics for posting positions and you can copy positions from gnu right into it very easily too. No extraneous bs like the swearing, rudeness and bizarre posts with gibberish in the title like here. Third, there is the Online Match with Kit Woolsey (GOL's owner). The readers play a match vs Kit and vote on their favorite move and the move with the most votes becomes the readers' move. There is a daily discussion on the forum amongst the players about their moves and the next day Kit gives a personal analysis of the move decisions for the players and for his move(s) too. This is in effect ridiculously cheap lessons from a world class player.

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