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Three underrated books

From:   Mary Hickey
Address:   thehick64@hotmail.com
Date:   24 July 2003
Subject:   Re: The perfect backgammon book?
Forum:   GammOnLine

Most underrated beginner book: Jacoby and Crawford, "The Backgammon Book."
Sure you wouldn't make every play they recommend, but it can help a
beginner start thinking the right way about the game. I know of one
beginner it helped a lot ... me!

Most underrated intermediate book: Barclay Cooke's "Paradoxes and
Probabilities." A lot of great principles with examples given where some
other principle predominates, and so the recommended play is wrong. This
book got me from winning small to winning big.

Most underrated advanced book: Antonio Ortega's "Costa Rica 93." Great
annotation of a great match between Wilcox Snellings and Mike Senkiewicz.
Includes comments from the players themselves, so it may also be the only
written insight available from these two "Giants". Great reading, but
when is the last time you heard of it? I Googled it just now and found
only one passing reference to it, in an old RGB post by Walter Trice.

Mary Hickey
 
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