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How to Not Suck at Backgammon, by Marc Olsen, Print book, Softcover

How to Not Suck at Backgammon, by Marc Olsen, Print book, Softcover

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Elevate Your Skills Easily

This backgammon book is tailor-made for beginners and intermediates who want to elevate their skills to an advanced player level.

It contains 20 fundamental rules on how to avoid making blunders – knowledge that all grandmasters possess instinctively but might not be obvious to less advanced players.

With 18 years of experience in competing, studying, writing books, and giving private lessons, Grandmaster Marc Olsen has compiled a book equivalent to how he would teach in private lessons to a new player.

It’s the ultimate guide for beginners and intermediates. Its structure is based on practical examples of ideas and logic, training the reader’s pattern recognition without delving into unnecessary math and game theory.

The book is easy to read for everyone, and the three quiz sections make it a super fun and interactive experience.

Contents

Part I: Rules on How to Avoid Checker Play Blunders
Part II: Quiz for Strategic Understanding
Part III: Train Your Pattern Recognition
Part IV: Checkerplay Quiz
Part V: Rules on How to Avoid Cube Action Blunders
Part VI: Cube Action Quiz

About the Author

Marc Olsen (Grandmaster), famous from YouTube, CEO of Backgammon Galaxy and author of four bestsellers: From Basics to Badass, Pure Strategy, Cube Like a Boss, and Masterclass (co-written with Super Grandmaster Masayuki Mochizuki). Marc Olsen is currently ranked no. 13 in the world on the UBC skill-based ranking list.

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Customer Reviews

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Rosemary Costello
Looks like a good book.

It's too early to report on this book .It arrived safely, and am just beginning to plow thru the pages w how-to and probabilities. It is helpful to set up one's own board while looking at the moves in the book.

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Leslie Lewis
Rookie, Not Mysteriously, Tests as Expert after Studying Parts I and II.

More significant than the level I tested at is of course the information I gained, both of the game's well-illustrated content and in understanding my weaker and stronger areas by way of the quizzes. Being 71 years old and a Rookie at page 1, I thought Marc's personality might explain my urge to purchase How to Not Suck at Backgammon. It’s really a brilliant title. And since you asked, the book's cover is as soft as any I've owned. True enough, Marc's writer's voice is indeed engaging, yet it is his underlying organization and clarity of material that has sustained me, so far, to page 134. I'm going to keep on going through Parts III through VI. I'm experienced enough to know that I will forget most of Parts I and II unless I return to them a couple more times. That's more than okay with me. Many thanks to Marc and his team.

[My Dear Gentlepeople Gamers, thank you for soliciting my feedback. Naturally, I expect you to gently disregard, since I'm not even halfway through the book. I've enjoyed writing it much more than the last book for which I wrote feedback; it was some decades ago for Mrs. Lorraine Holloway's Literature course...I think I'll leave it at that. I want to say that Marc must receive appropriate compensation and credit should his material be expropriated by AI. But I understand he is an accomplished businessman, and not the only one among backgammon professionals, so this is likely a moot point. Regardless, no doubt quite a while ago, this concern has been overcome by events.]

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Scott Eisen

How to Not Suck at Backgammon, by Marc Olsen, Print book, Softcover

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Customer

a great book ... very, very interesting and well done

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Chris Novak
Good book. Poor packaging

I do like the book full of great tips. But the packing was done poorly and I reached out to BG to see what’s they could do for me. The answered me back for some pictures of the damage and I replied with the pictures and never heard anything back from them and I probably
never will. But if they do fix it I will revise my review.

  • Pages

    342

  • Size

    6 x 9 inches

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  • Language

    English