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Backgammon: Pure Strategy

by Marc Brockmann Olsen

Backgammon strategy through patterns and practice

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Backgammon strategy through patterns and practice

Marc Brockmann Olsen examines how backgammon-playing AI evaluates positions, then draws on those methods to present a human approach based on pattern recognition and conceptual thinking. The book is aimed beyond the beginner stage, with its first part developing a framework for understanding strategic decisions and game dynamics. A second part applies those ideas through 129 quiz positions: readers are invited to work out a move before turning to an in-depth analysis. This structure makes the book both a discussion of strategic principles and a collection of exercises for putting them to use.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Intermediate and advanced backgammon players seeking to deepen their strategic understanding
  • Players who enjoy working through quiz positions and move analyses

Themes

Backgammon strategyPattern recognition and conceptual thinkingArtificial intelligence and human decision-makingLearning through position analysis

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Book overview

"Backgammon - Pure Strategy" goes deeper into understanding the theory of the game, than any other book before it. This is not a beginners book. This is the book to take your game from intermediate or advanced, into the expert or world class level.The book explains how the backgammon AI algorithms (artificial intelligence) work, and how we as humans can get inspired from them. With this inspiration, the book presents a very strong framework of understanding the dynamics and strategy of the game: a human neural net philosophy. But instead of using brute force calculation power as a computer does, we use pattern recognition and conceptual thinking. The second part of the book consists of 129 quiz positions, where the ideas and principles of the first part are put to practice. The reader is encouraged to make an effort to find the best move and understand what's going on in the position. Each position has an in-depth analysis, when you turn the page.It's safe to say, that no other backgammon book in the world will make you (re)think this deeply about backgammon strategy.
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