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3rd Edition of Robertie's 501 Essential Backgammon Problems
Posted By: Chuck Bower In Response To: 3rd Edition of Robertie's 501 Essential Backgammon Problems (Chuck Bower)
Date: Thursday, 18 June 2026, at 8:24 p.m.
After spending about 5 minutes comparing the 1st (2000) and 3rd (2017) editions I can't find any obvious differences. The Table of Contents look identical; same number of pages, same number of problems in each chapter. It's possible there are changes in the solutions/explanations to the problems but I'm not going to search for those. Interestingly, the bio at the front of the book says Robertie is the only two time champion. Ignoring pre-Monte Carlo World Championships (so starting in 1979) Michael Meyberg won in 1991 and 1998, before the 2000 publication date. By 2017 they were joined by Jurgen Granstedt (1999, 2001, 2016) yet the same bio was used in the 2017 edition as in the 2000 edition.
As a sidelight, to my knowledge very few BG books have made it to (true) 2nd editions. Robertie's Advanced Backgammon is one. Wachtel's In the Game Until the End was complemented by a second volume on the subject, as was Woolseys' Backgammon Reference Positions. Apparently Schiemann recently released a 2nd edition of The Theory of Backgammon. Maybe I can look at one in Michigan in a couple weeks. Anyone know of any others?
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