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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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