This latest addition to the bestselling 52 Great Tips series features backgammon—the centuries-old game whose popularity is exploding today, thanks to exciting new opportunities to play online. Starting with the basic rules, Michael Crane, a leading British player, explains everything both beginners and advanced competitors need to know. He shows the newcomer that what looks at first like a simple game of chance offers deep strategic challenges. And for the reader who learns how to calculate the odds, he offers winning advice on the best ways to handle different situations on the board. The tips (some of them contributed by other international players) cover everything from the opening moves to the subtleties of using the doubling cube.

52 Great Backgammon Tips: At Home, Tournament and Online

Humor & Entertainment

Kit Woolsey

Patti Beadles

Puzzles & Games

Batsford

Learn the latest innovations in leading, discarding and signaling. Upside-Down, Odd-Even, Lavinthal, Encrypted signals. How declarer can combat these methods.

Modern Defensive Signalling

Baron Barclay Bridge

Kit Woolsey's classic Matchpoints, the definitive guide to matchpoint strategy and tactics, is modernized and updated in this new edition from Bridge Winners Press.

Matchpoints

Bridge Winners Press

Joe Sylvester versus Nack Ballard (The Gammon Press Tournament Backgammon Series)

The Gammon Press

Backgammon: Master Versus Amateur Volume 1

The Backgammon Encyclopedia - Vol 1/Cube Reference Positions

Reference

Bridge is a game of communication between partners. As such, the methods of communication used in bridge -- the bids we make during the auction and cards we play on defense -- constitute a language. Understanding how to speak that language requires more than learning what the different "words" mean; one must know how and why to use these "words." Like words in a sentence, an individual bid's meaning will be augmented and amplified by the context of the auction and sequence of other bids. In order to learn to speak this language fluently, we also have to learn to think correctly. As when we are speaking English, we use our bridge language ("Bringlish") in the pursuit of a goal. The goal of bidding is to get to the best contract, not to follow some rules or "describe your hand." The goal of defense is setting the contract or taking the maximum number of tricks, not telling partner what you hold or giving the "right" signal. Kit Woolsey tackles this subject in characteristic style: clear and logical analysis, supported by numerous example hands. Kit's unique perspective on bridge offers insights valuable to players of all levels.

The Language of Bridge

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