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Mary Hickey

The Backgammon Maniac Quiz

18 Nov 2011 - by Mary Hickey

Quizzes, exams, and competency tests are all the rage in backgammon now. You can hardly go to a tournament without being given a test of some kind.

Rating:

4.80

Phil Simborg

How to Become an Expert With the Doubling Cube

31 Oct 2011 - by Phil Simborg

Before I give you the actual "secret", please allow me to give you the background on how I have come to acquire this amazing information--that way you might believe that what I am about to tell you is truly correct.

Rating:

3.38

Freistadtler Backgammon

Product Review: GammonVillage's Freistadtler Professional Series Backgammon Sets

17 Oct 2011 - by Robert E. Stoller, Co-Founder, Anchorage (Alaska) Backgammon Club

The tournament-ready and tournament-worthy line of "Freistadtler Professional Series" backgammon sets recently added to the array of backgammon sets available in the GammonVillage on-line store represents an excellent set of choices at a fair and realistic price.

Rating:

4.62

Phil Simborg

How to Learn Backgammon

30 Sep 2011 - by Phil Simborg

I mean really "learn" backgammon. I'm not talking about just moving a bunch of little round discs from one triangle to another. That's what 95% of people who play this game do. That's what I did for 25 years.

Rating:

3.89

What's Your Game Plan?

Review: What's Your Game Plan? Backgammon Strategy in the Middle Game

19 Sep 2011 - by Jeb Horton

Jeb Horton gives his review of the new book "What's Your Game Plan? Backgammon Strategy in the Middle Game", by authors and backgammon luminaries Mary Hickey and Marty Storer.

Rating:

4.60

Phil Simborg

Taking 'Me' Out of the Game

01 Sep 2011 - by Phil Simborg

In Backgammon, as in life, we are all "risk-averse." Emotion sometimes keeps backgammon players from making the best decision, even when they know, intellectually, what the best decision is.

Rating:

4.74