Move-by-move insights and powerful strategies from two-time world champion Bill Robertie offer readers a glimpse into the techniques employed by the best players in the world. This book delves into advanced concepts that can elevate one’s game, making it a valuable resource for both beginners and experienced players looking to enhance their skills and understanding of the game.
This comprehensive backgammon supercharges intermediate players with powerful concepts used by professional money players and champions! Readers learn everything from the general principles underlying expert play to advanced concepts like back play, holding games and one man back. Advanced strategic chapters cover connectivity, priming games, containment games, breaking anchor, action doubles, late game blitzes, post-blitz turnaround, ace point games, the concepts of profitable doubles and much more in the 31 hard-hitting chapters. With the help of hundreds of game-action diagrams 501 Essential Problems transform readers into thinking, aggressive pro-level players. A must-buy for every serious backgammon player!
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The book offers a straightforward approach to mastering chess strategies, focusing on effective mating techniques to outsmart opponents. Players will discover enjoyable methods to improve their game and achieve victory, making it accessible for beginners and engaging for seasoned players alike.
Players learn how to win in the endgame using any combination of pieces: king and pawn, king and rook, king and queen, and many more, plus how to march pawns into queens. Robertie’s sage advice, presented in easy-to-read charts and clear explanations, shows players how to force winning positions into checkmates in the endgame, and even how to turn drawn or lost positions into victories. In the endgame, material has been reduced to the last few pieces and pawns and a skilled endgame player has a big advantage when the game reaches this stage. Robertie shows how to win in the endgame using any combination of pieces—king and pawn, king and rook, king and queen, bishop and knight combinations and many more. With the lessons you’ll learn here, you’ll be the player setting the traps, and your opponents will be turning over their kings in surrender.
Bill Robertie, a chess master and former US Chess Speed Championships winner, brings his expertise to readers through his extensive authorship of seventeen books, including six focused on chess for Cardoza Publishing. His works reflect a deep understanding of the game, making them valuable resources for chess enthusiasts.
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.
No-limit hold em was once a game played almost exclusively in casinos. But during the last decade, the game s growth has been fueled in part by the easy availability of online playing sites where participants can play cash games and tournaments 24 hours a day, every day. In Harrington on Online Cash Games, Dan Harrington shows you the key ideas and skills that will let you master the online poker world which differs in some significant ways from the world of casino games. You ll learn how to handle different stack sizes, how to play at 6-max tables, how to deal with increased levels of aggression, and how to use the poker databases and heads-up displays that give you unprecedented information on your opponent s tendencies. Harrington lays out detailed strategies for preflop and post-flop play in both the popular micro-stakes games and the more difficult small-stakes games. If you play online poker or you re looking to get started, you ll need to read this book. Dan Harri
Testimony for Earth is founded on the six core principles and five action principles of the Manifesto for Earth created by two talented Canadian scientists, Dr. Ted Mosquin and Stan Rowe, and published in the January-March 2004 issue of Biodiversity - Journal of Life on Earth. The value of the Manifesto principles is that they offer concepts that can serve as a guide to what we should and should not do to help save the planet and ourselves. Testimony for Earth expands upon, illustrates, and gives examples that encourage a more sustainable worldview than is currently held. Political, economic, and religious principles rest on the erroneous assumption that human beings are the only creatures of importance in the universe. Testimony for Earth compels us to realize that all living organisms are Earth beings - earthlings - born and sustained at all stages of life by the health and integrity of Planet Earth. In a philosophical sense it suggests that we can only justify our own being by realizing that we are but parts of the wholeness of our planet. This book makes us look around and realize that all living beings hold their lives by the same thin threads by which we hold our own.
This two-volume set offers a comprehensive exploration of cash game strategy in poker, focusing on the nuances of play that differentiate it from tournament formats. The authors, Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie, provide insights into fundamental concepts such as hand selection, betting strategies, and psychological elements of the game. Volume 1 delves into the basics of cash games, emphasizing the importance of understanding opponents and adapting strategies accordingly. It covers essential topics like position, pot odds, and the significance of chip management. The authors present a structured approach to decision-making, supported by practical examples and scenarios. Volume 2 builds on the foundation laid in the first volume, introducing advanced concepts such as bluffing, reading opponents, and exploiting weaknesses in different playing styles. The text includes detailed analyses of various game situations, allowing readers to develop a deeper understanding of strategic adjustments. Overall, this set serves as a resource for players looking to enhance their cash game performance through methodical analysis and strategic thinking, making it a valuable addition to any poker enthusiast's library.
