100 Backgammon Puzzles: A Champion's Guide to Testing Your Skills and Improving Your Game [Paperback]

Paul Lamford (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2001

Offers challenging ways to improve your game.

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From the Back Cover

100 Backgammon Puzzles contains fascinating and challenging backgammon puzzles that can be enjoyed without ever setting up a board. The first half of the book presents decisions on checker plays, while the second half deals with decisions on whether to double and whether to accept an offered cube. The book begins with a brief, yet thorough, introduction to the basic strategy of the game, and below each illustrated puzzle are some valuable hints and tips to help guide both the experienced and casual player. Also included is a handy glossary of backgammon terms and a chart for converting scores to international rating. (5 1/2 X 8 1/4, 128 pages, illustrations, chart)

About the Author

Paul Lamford was 1993 British Backgammon Champion and is currently the highest-ranked British player.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Lyons Press; 1st edition (February 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585742090
• ISBN-13: 978-1585742097
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,295,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of my favourite backgammon books, March 31, 2002

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Alef Rosenbaum (London, England United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 100 Backgammon Puzzles: A Champion's Guide to Testing Your Skills and Improving Your Game (Paperback)

I have about a dozen backgammon books and this is one of the better ones. The positions included cover a huge range of situations and teach a lot of useful key positions. I find his tips and various rules of thumb highly educational.

Personally, I much prefer Lamford's writing style to Robertie's. It's clear, helpful and straightforward (not sensationalist). His PRAT (position, race & threats) advice on doubling is something I've seen no where else, and it's a very useful tool indeed.

It's good for beginners keen to get into the more complex aspects of the game and intermediates working to improve, but experts may find the limited amount of deep analysis disappointing (I'm rated about 1800 on FIBS).

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Test and Improve?, July 26, 2001

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Luca Lodi (Rome, Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 100 Backgammon Puzzles: A Champion's Guide to Testing Your Skills and Improving Your Game (Paperback)

I agree with the subtitle of the book about testing your skills.... but definately not on Improving your game. The answers and the tips at the end of each quiz are telegraphic ... nothing you would benefit from. Testing your skills? Yes maybe the results of the tables can give you an idea of your level.

5.0 out of 5 stars Short & Sweet BG Puzzles, August 13, 2010

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This review is from: 100 Backgammon Puzzles: A Champion's Guide to Testing Your Skills and Improving Your Game (Paperback)

I enjoy short and sweet formats in books. In particular, I like this kind of puzzle format.

I like how the puzzles make you think -- and learn specific parts of the game of backgammon. You can put the book down and pick it up, flipping to various puzzles to refresh your memory about the important aspects of the game. This reminds me of the old Barclay Cooke book I had as a youngster (LOL: several of Cooke's solutions have been proven wrong by today's neural net backgammon software programs) -- but it was "Good stuff" -- just like this book.