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Backgammon Resources - Books and Links

Everybody needs a little help from time to time especially when we are first learning the game or wanting to better ourselves. Online tutorials and backgammon schools are great and very helpful, but they are something you can’t just pick up regardless of where you are. That’s why one of the best learning tools (as it has always been) is a book and there are a vast number of books on backgammon which range from the pure beginner through to the Masters themselves.

Here are a few recomendations to get you running to the nearest bookshop.

For beginners:
Backgammon For Winners by Bill Robertie. A book for beginners, so if you’re rating is under 1600, it will probably be ok. This book deals with the simple ands the more complicated moves such as 'Try to hop my checkers home safely and don’t worry about the doubling cube until I’m doubled' to the next stage of intelligent game play.

The intermediate Players:
Backgammon for Serious Players by Bill Robertie. Double World Champion Bill Robertie, explains in his own inimitable way how to win, a book which some aficionados love others hate told, but makes a good alternative to the more expensively priced Magriel’s book, if you don’t want to spend a lot of money.

Backgammon by Paul Magriel. The classic backgammon book for any player who wants to be great at the game. About 400 pages long and covering every aspect of the game, with an almost biblical reverence to the game on every page. A must for players of a certain standard or those aspiring to reach it.

Advanced Backgammon players:
Once you have achieved the highest levels it is important to maintain the standard, these books are therefore not for amateur, if you excuse the analogy. They do not require a Doctorate either to understand them, but they do require a certain focused attention to make the moves that they describe not just comprehensible but executable.

Advanced Backgammon – Volume 1 (Positional play) by Bill Robertie.
Advanced Backgammon – Volume 2 (Technical play) by Bill Robertie.
Both of these books are excellent but are not that easy to find but they contain about 180 positions outlining nearly all of the game plays. Including rules for how to play certain positions, doubling formulas for races, and such important concepts as the 'addition principle.' Memorising some of these illustrated moves can greatly improve your logic in the game and your whole thought process.

New Ideas In Backgammon by Kit Woolsey and Hal Heinrich. A book of 104 difficult checker play problems carefully crafted, so that the reader has to figure out the solution, another great way to stimulate the gray matter.

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