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December 1999

Dec 22   Strategy--Checker play--Bearing off with contact  (Walter Trice)
Dec 20   Software--Windows: Exact Bearoff (analyzer)  (Michel Grimminck)
Dec 18   Equipment--Leather boards  (HGM)
Dec 17   Rollouts--What is a rollout?  (Gregg Cattanach)
Dec 17   Puzzles--Small chance of ending in doubles  (Walter Trice)
Dec 10   Magazines & E-zines--GammonVillage announcement  (Michael Strato)
Dec 07   Software--Windows: Snowie 3 (player, analyzer)  (André Nicoulin)
Dec 07   Fun and frustration--Backgammon laws  (Walt Swan)
Dec 03   Programming--Source code  (Gary Wong)
Dec 01   Snowie--Luck calculation  (Gregg Cattanach)

November 1999

Nov 26   Strategy--Checker play--Gammonish positions  (Michael Manolios)
Nov 13   Cheating--Advantages of online play  (Donald Kahn)
Nov 08   Books--Magriel: Backgammon  (Chuck Bower)
Nov 03   Learning--Beginners' mistakes  (Alan Webb)
Nov 03   Magazines & E-zines--GammOnLine  (Adam V)
Nov 03   Fun and frustration--Losing streaks  (Leo Bueno)
Nov 02   Books--Clay: Backgammon Winning Strategies  (Michael Strato)
Nov 01   Equipment--Dice cups  (David Montgomery)

October 1999

Oct 31   Strategy--Checker play--Breaking contact  (Alan Webb)
Oct 29   Tournaments--Newbie questions  (Donald Kahn)
Oct 26   Equipment--Boards--Zavoral  (Robert Zavoral)
Oct 24   Opening Rolls--Slotting the four point  (Joe Loria)
Oct 21   Books--Obolensky & James: Backgammon the Action Game  (Edward D. Collins)

September 1999

Sep 23   Variations--Domino backgammon  (Laury Chizlett)
Sep 21   Play Sites--ItsYourTurn--Announcement  (Tom Buhrman)
Sep 16   Cube Handling in Races--Thorp count questions  (Chuck Bower)
Sep 11   Books--Magriel: Backgammon  (Dean Gay)
Sep 08   Cube Handling--Endgame close out: Spleischft formula  (Simon Larsen)
Sep 02   Theory--Janowski's formulas  (Stig Eide)

August 1999

Aug 30   Cube Handling--When to beaver  (Walter Trice)
Aug 23   Play Sites--Ratings comparison  (Daniel Murphy)
Aug 20   Propositions--Opening 11 vs. Owning the cube  (Bob Ebbeler)
Aug 15   Tournaments--Manually recording a match  (Daniel Murphy)
Aug 10   Tournaments--Recording matches  (Sean Dakin)
Aug 02   Rollouts--How reliable are rollouts?  (David Montgomery)

July 1999

Jul 28   GNU Backgammon--How rollouts work  (Gary Wong)
Jul 27   Probability and Statistics--Losing after bearing off 14 checkers  (Daniel Murphy)
Jul 11   Learning--Reference positions  (Chuck Bower)
Jul 05   Equipment--What is "tournament size"?  (Rodrigo Andrade)
Jul 02   Books--Leet: Winning Backgammon  (MW Book Review)

June 1999

Jun 26   Tournaments--Adjusting to face-to-face play  (Daniel Murphy)
Jun 20   Probability and Statistics--Distribution of points per game  (Roland Sutter)
Jun 20   Theory--Double/take/drop rates  (Gary Wong)
Jun 13   Magazines & E-zines--Inside Backgammon R.I.P.  (Chris Bray)
Jun 11   Magazines & E-zines--GammOnLine announcement  (Kit Woolsey)
Jun 08   Books--Becker: Backgammon for Blood  (PTaber)
Jun 04   Miscellaneous--Money management and the Kelly Criterion  (Stuart Thomson)

May 1999

May 28   Terminology--"Beavers"  (Sander van Rijnswou)
May 19   Match Play--Free drop  (Ian Shaw)
May 04   Fun and frustration--Beginner's luck  (Paul Tanenbaum)
May 03   Books--Bell: Winning with the Doubling Cube  (David Montgomery)

April 1999

Apr 11   Miscellaneous--Free lesson  (Donald Kahn)
Apr 01   Books--Kennedy & Papazian: Backgammon Master Games  (Ben Fairbank)

March 1999

Mar 22   Miscellaneous--Board orientation  (Daniel Murphy)
Mar 04   Match Play at 2-away/2-away--Minimum game winning chances to double  (Walter Trice)
Mar 01   Programming--Neural net questions  (Brian Sheppard)

February 1999

Feb 27   Programming--Blockading feature  (Sam Pottle)
Feb 21   Opening Rolls--Snowie's openers and replies  (rcerutti)
Feb 20   Opening Rolls--Rollouts: Jellyfish 3.0 level 6  (Chuck Bower)
Feb 19   Match Equities--Why use a match equity table?  (Kit Woolsey)
Feb 18   Probability and Statistics--Expected variation in points after a series of games  (Achim Müller)
Feb 14   Ratings--Ratings variation  (Kevin Bastian)
Feb 02   Fun and frustration--Characters we all know  (Alan Webb)

January 1999

Jan 31   Match Play--Doubling when facing a gammon loss  (Kit Woolsey)
Jan 29   Rules--Rolling on wrong side of board  (Kit Woolsey)
Jan 26   Equipment--Boards--Tak Morioka  (Ed Zell)
Jan 24   Play Sites--GamesGrid vs FIBS  (Jim Cochrane)
Jan 20   Programming--Writing a backgammon program  (Gary Wong)
Jan 18   Play Sites--Overview  (Alan Webb)
Jan 15   Chouettes--Mandatory beaver  (David Montgomery)
Jan 14   Chouettes--Automatic doubles with carryover  (Alexander Zamanian)
Jan 14   Strategy--Checker play--Holding games  (Casual_Observer)
Jan 11   Snowie--Snowie vs. Jellyfish  (Wayne Crookes)
 

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