The Backgammon Book Author:Oswald Jacoby, John R. Crawford Here is the basic backgammon book, the one essential guide for learning how to play a game that is simple enough for a ten year old, yet so challenging that it has intrigued the world's great game players for over two thousand years! It's all here- from the basics of equipment and setting up a game, to understanding the object of competition; fr... more »om preliminaries and starting plays to the fascinating strategy and fine points of the middle and end game.« less