Don't know what to look for? Here are a few great books we recommend:
Paul Magriel Backgammon
Jeremy Bagai Classic Backgammon Revisited
Danny Kleinman Vision Laughs at Counting (two volumes)
Bill Robertie 501 Essential Backgammon Problems
Kit Woolsey Tournament Series Backgammon
Kit Woolsey and Hal Heinrich New Ideas in Backgammon
Our book list is sorted by author. Use the menu to go directly to any section of the alphabet. Out-of-print books are available from libraries, used book stores, internet auction sites, and collectors.
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| Bagai, Jeremy | Classic Backgammon Revisited (2001). | |||||||||||
| Becker, Bruce | Backgammon for Blood | |||||||||||
| Berliner, Hans | "A Program that Plays Backgammon," SIGART Newsletter No. 54 (October 1975) | |||||||||||
| Berliner, Hans | "Backgammon computer program beats world champion," Artificial Intelligence 14, 205-220 (1980). | |||||||||||
| Berliner, Hans | "Computer Backgammon," Scientific American 243:1, 64-72 (1980) | |||||||||||
| C | ||||||||||||
| Clay, Robin | Backgammon (NTC Publishing Group) | |||||||||||
| Cooke, Barclay | Championship Backgammon | |||||||||||
| Cooke, Barclay | Paradoxes and Probabilities (1978). | |||||||||||
| Cooke, Barclay | The Cruelest Game | |||||||||||
| D-F | ||||||||||||
| Deyong, Lewis | Playboy's Book of Backgammon | |||||||||||
| Dwek, Joe | Backgammon For Profit (1975). | |||||||||||
| Friedman, Roy | World Class Backgammon, Move By Move (1989-90). | |||||||||||
| G-J | ||||||||||||
| Goulding, Kent | Backgammon With The Champions (1980-82). | |||||||||||
| Heyken, Enno Fischer, Martin B. |
The Backgammon Handbook (1990). | |||||||||||
| Jacoby, Oswald Crawford, John R. |
The Backgammon Book | |||||||||||
| K | ||||||||||||
| Keeler, E.B. Spencer, J. |
"Optimal Doubling in Backgammon," Operations Research Vol. 23 No. 6 (November-December 1975) | |||||||||||
| Kennedy, Bill Papazian, Chuck |
Backgammon Master Games (1982) | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | A Backgammon Book For Gabriel | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | Advice to the Dicelorn | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | ...But Only the Hogs Win Backgammons | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | Double Sixes from the Bar | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | How Can I Keep from Dancing? | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | How Little We Know about Backgammon | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | Is There Life After Backgammon? | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | Meanwhile, Back at the Chouette | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | The Dice Conquer All | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | The Long Road To Gammon | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | The Other Side of Midnight | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | Vision Laughs at Counting (two volumes) (1978) | |||||||||||
| Kleinman, Danny | Wonderful World of Backgammon | |||||||||||
| L-N | ||||||||||||
| Labins, Mike Storer, Marty Tallmadge, Bill |
Competitive Backgammon Vol. II (1981). | |||||||||||
| Levner, David | "Is Brute Force Backgammon Possible?," SIGART Newsletter No. 58 (June 1976) | |||||||||||
| Magriel, Paul | Backgammon (1976, reprinted 1997). | |||||||||||
| O-Q | ||||||||||||
| Ortega, Antonio | Fascinating Backgammon, Edited by Danny Klienman | |||||||||||
| Ortega, Antonio Esquivel, Max Madrigal, Mario Kazaross, Neil |
Costa Rica 1993 (Wilcox Snellings vs. Mike Senkiewics) | |||||||||||
| Orth, P.J. | "A Comment on Optimal Doubling in Backgammon," Operations Research 24, 1179 (1976) | |||||||||||
| R-S | ||||||||||||
| Robertie, Bill | 501 Essential Backgammon Problems (2000). | |||||||||||
| Robertie, Bill | Advanced Backgammon (2nd edition; two volumes) (1991). | |||||||||||
| Robertie, Bill | Backgammon For Serious Players (Cardoza Publishing) | |||||||||||
| Robertie, Bill | Backgammon For Winners (Cardoza Publishing) | |||||||||||
| Robertie, Bill | Genud vs Dwek: The 1981 World Backgammon Championship (1982). | |||||||||||
| Robertie, Bill | Learning from the Machine: Robertie vs. TD-GAMMON (Gammon Press). | |||||||||||
| Robertie, Bill | Reno 1986 (1987). | |||||||||||
| T-U | ||||||||||||
| Tesauro, G Sejnowski, T.J. |
"A Parallel Network that Learns to Play Backgammon," Artificial Intelligence 39, 357-390 (1989). | |||||||||||
| Tesauro, G | "Neurogammon wins Computer Olympiad," Neural Computation vol. 1, 321-323 (1989) | |||||||||||
| Tesauro, G | "Neurogammon: a neural network backgammon program," IJCNN Proceedings vol. III, 33-40 (1990). | |||||||||||
| Tesauro, G | "Practical issues in temporal difference learning," Machine Learning vol. 8, 257-277 (1992). | |||||||||||
| Tesauro, G | "TD-Gammon, a Self-Teaching Backgammon Program, Achieves Master-level Play," Neural Computation vol. 6, 215-219 (1994). | |||||||||||
| Tesauro, G | "Temporal Difference Learning and TD-Gammon," Communications of the ACM Vol.38, No.3, 58-68 (March 1995) | |||||||||||
| W-X | ||||||||||||
| Ward, Jeff | The Doubling Cube In Backgammon (1982). | |||||||||||
| Watchel, Bob | In The Game Until The End: Winning In Ace-Point Endgames | |||||||||||
| Woolsey, Kit | How to Play Tournament Backgammon Tournament Series Backgammon (Gammon Press) | |||||||||||
| Woolsey, Kit Heinrich, Hal |
New Ideas in Backgammon | |||||||||||
| Y-Z | ||||||||||||
| Zadeh, N. Kobliska, G. |
"On Optimal Doubling in Backgammon," Management Science 23, 853-858 (1977) | |||||||||||
| Zadeh, N. | "On Doubling in Tournament Backgammon," Management Science 23, (1977) 986-993 | |||||||||||
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