Bill Robertie, the world's best backgammon player and only two-time champion, shows how to play and win at backgammon. "Learn from the man acknowledged as the greatest backgammon player of his time. Expert advice in easy-to-read charts and explanations shows the essentials of playing and winning, plust the inside tips and strategies of champions." How to Play - How to Win! Step-by-step, you'll learn the basics of setting up a board, how to move and conquer blots, and how to play a dynamic offense that will give you an advantage right from the opening roll.

Backgammon for Winners

Humor & Entertainment

Robertie, Bill

Puzzles & Games

Cardoza Pub

This first book in the new Road to Chess Mastery series provides beginners with a step-by-step approach to learning and playing chess. It explains the fundamentals of the game and provides drawings and diagrams that illustrate how it is played. Bill Robertie covers everything from setting up the board to thinking strategically.

Beginning Chess Play

Cardoza

Another clear and thoughtfully prepared guide in a series for those traveling the chess-learning "road." Cardoza Publishing, 132 Hastings St., Brooklyn, NY 11235. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Winning Chess Openings (Road to Chess Mastery)

The classic by the world’s best backgammon player shows beginners how to play and win at this great game. This classic (more than 100,000 copies sold) features strategies, examples, and diagrams to illustrate backgammon’s important concepts and how beginning players can not only learn the game but immediately leapfrog over their competitors and become immediate-level players. The world's best player provides easy-to-understand advice on the basics of playing—how to set up a board, how to move, the opening strategies and replies, essential middle and end game tactics, the basic probabilities, plus back game and doubling strategies. Two full sample games with move-by-move insights illustrate the winning concepts of play at all stages of the game. A great first book for beginning and somewhat experienced players.

Backgammon For Winners

Newly formatted and updated! Fourteen chapters illustrate the explanations and thinking behind every tactical concept. Learn to use pins, single and double forks, double attacks, skewers, discovered and double checks, multiple threats and other crushing tactics to gain an immediate edge. Each concept is fully explained in easy-to-understand language with diagrams, examples, and game situations so you understand the thinking and game plan behind every move. Tons of diagrams and examples along with insightful comments on strategy and tactics applicable to every player make this a valuable guide for beginning and intermediate players. Includes a beginner's guide to chess notation. 304 pages

Winning Chess Tactics

The goal of chess is to checkmate your opponents' king, but to be successful, you must know the basic combinations necessary to accomplish this. Easy-to-read and concise, Robertie's guide makes winning at chess easy. You'll learn all the essential mates, including the scholar's mate, mate with two bishops, the corridor mate, the smothered mate, five patterns of diagonal mates, king hunts, and the key strategies needed to set up future mates. Each concept is fully explained in easy-to-understand language with examples, game situation, insightful commentary, and more than 120 diagrams, so readers understand the thinking and game plan behind every move and stratagem. Robertie also shows advanced, surprising, and unconventional mates, the most effective pieces needed to win, how to work two rooks into an unstoppable attack, wield a queen advantage with deadly intent, and even how to mate opponents with just a single pawn advantage. 176 pages

Master Checkmate Strategy (Road to Chess Mastery Series)

Backgammon For Serious Players [Apr 01, 2000] Robertie, Bill ...

Backgammon For Serious Players

Win at chess now!
Let Bill Robertie, chess master, former US chess speed champion, and author of 12 books including many best-selling chess titles, show you the essential strategies necessary to win in the endgame.
Expert advice in easy-to-read charts and explanations shows you how to force winning positions into check-mates in the endgame, and even how to turn drawn or lost positions into victories!
Learn the endgame secrets.
You'll learn how to squeeze out victory in endgames involving Kings, pawns, Bishops and Knights, the combinations necessary for mate and how to effect them, and the essential strategies for marching pawns into queens and then checkmating your opponents.
FeaturingThe essential Combinations Needed for Mating OpponentsPower Strategies for Queening Your Pawns94 Diagrams Showing Endgame Conditions and CheckmatesBishops vs. Bishops, Bishops vs. Knights, Bishops of Opposite Colors, Kings, Pawns and Minor Pieces, Essential King and Pawn MatesBeginner's Guide to Standard Chess Notation "The Road to Chess Mastery" 
The essential series to the winning strategies and tactics of chess!!!

Basic Endgame Strategy: Kings, Pawns, Minor Pieces (Road to Chess Mastery)

Explains the use of rooks, queens, and pawns to mate opponents and describes strategies for closing down a game

Basic Endgame Strategy: Queens & Rooks (Road to Chess Mastery)

This comprehensive backgammon book challenges the reader with 501 essential problems to transform him into a thinking, aggressive pro-level player. Strategies and situation cover every aspect of the game, from playing positions to doubling maneuvers. Everything is carefully explained and illustrated so that the reader understands all the concepts.

501 Essential Backgammon Problems

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