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Definition of "gammon save"

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Monday, 5 September 2011, at 11:43 p.m.

In Response To: I stink at playing from Crawford part 1 (Turz)

Did you take that definition from Backgammon Galore?

http://www.bkgm.com/gloss/lookup.cgi?gammon+save

But then it goes on to give examples, which are all what you're calling "pure gammon save".

I've gotten used to using "gammon save" for what you're calling "pure gammon save" but I guess not everybody uses the term the same way.

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