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Best BG book list

Posted By: Mislav Radica
Date: Tuesday, 6 November 2007, at 4:29 p.m.

In Response To: Best BG book list (Chuck Bower)

Great, I like this question!

Well, at first I think there is at least three main kinds off books in backgammon. Books with annotated matches, books about doubling cube and other backgammon books (mostly problems books), so maybe we have to choose best books from those three groups for all your categories (beginner, intermediate, advanced, Open, Top100).

Or where we put Ballar/Weaver book about Backgammon openings? It is for all level from high intermediate and up. So I put it in Open category but it can't be right.

Second, while I am somewhere beetween advanced/open player I will not consider which books is best for Top100 players. I have no idea.

Third, I will consider books only from bot era because I think that all clasics are not apropriate nowdays. From my experience they can only distract your game. Maybe after reading all best books from bot era one can start to read old books with Bagai book in one hand and some bot in other. So no for Magriel's Backgammon, Robertie's Advanced backgammon, Orthega's Costa Rica match books, Kleinman and others heros in this choice. There are all excellent books but I think it is important to get right modern way of play first.

Beginner:

1) Chris Bray: Backgammon for Win

2) Kit Woolsey/Patty Beadles: 52 great backgammon tips 3) Paul Lamford: Starting Out In Backgammon 4) Bill Robertie: Backgammon for Winners 5) Bill Robertie: Backgammon for Serious Players (match book)

Intermediate:

1) Walter Trice: Backgammon Boot Camp

2) Bill Robertie: 501 Essential Backgammon Problems 3) Antonio Orthega/Danny Kleinman: Backgammon With the Giants-Neil Kazaross (match book) 4) Kit Woolsey/Tami Jones: Understanding backgammon 5) Norm Wiggins: Boards, Blots and Double Shots

Advanced:

1) Bill Robertie: Modern backgammon

2) Marty Storer: Backgammon Praxis (match books) 3) Kit Woolsey: Backgammon Encyclopedia Vol I (cube book) 4) Jeremy Paul Bagai: Classic Backgammon Revisited 5) Kit Woolsey: How to Play Tournament backgammon

Open:

1) Kit Woolsey/Hal Heinrich: New Ideas In Backgammon

2) Nack Ballard/Paul Weaver: Backgammon Openings Book A 3) Antonio Orthega/Danny Kleinman: Cubes and Gammons Near the End of a Match 4) Paul Lamford/Simon Gasquoine: Improve Your Backgammon 5) Bob Wachtel: In the Game Until the End

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