Paradoxes and Probabilities: 168 Backgammon Problems
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Paradoxes and Probabilities: 168 Backgammon Problems
From dust jacket notes: "By now it has become clear that backgammon is no longer merely a fad like mah-jong, and that it is a game in which, over the long run, skill will overcome the luck of the dice. In short, it is recognized as a game in which imagination, positional artistry, timing, unorthodox daring and mathematical skill all play a role in the makeup of an expert backgammon player. There is no better way to attain this goal than by studying the problems in this book. Some of them will seem elementary, other exquisitely complex, but even an expert can learn from the former, and even a beginner will glean something from the latter...."