Category: Solsky StrataGems
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Dice Distribution – the Silent Storyteller
It’s time to start studying like a master – let’s take a deep dive into the inner workings of Extreme Gammon, our electronic mercenary.
https://temp.bgfed.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Dice-Distribution-the-Silent-Storyteller.pdf
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Backgammon Scenes and Tales – How Backgammon Imitates Blackjack
When you trap a couple of back checkers behind a strong prime, you sometimes see the remaining part of the opponent’s position – which was calm and orderly to this point – suddenly go berserk!
The result can be disastrous – but for whom?
https://temp.bgfed.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/How-Backgammon-Imitates-Blackjack.pdf
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Just Sit Still or Mastering Backgammon Through Fairy Tales
How to make bold and constructive plays even though we’re under pressure? How to show our opponent who’s boss when he thinks he’s got it made? Sadly, this isn’t the theme of our article today. I hope you can still enjoy it…
https://temp.bgfed.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Just-sit-still-1.pdf
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How to Deal with Time Trouble?
Is there really a magic solution for this? Read on and find out…
https://temp.bgfed.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/How-to-Deal-with-Time-Trouble.pdf
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Too gammonish to take
On cashing a point when the win isn’t in sight, on migrating our viewpoint as a winning technique, on recognizing simplicity inside complexity – plus an added bit of old-fashioned chess wisdom.
https://temp.bgfed.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Too-gammonish-to-take.pdf
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Attacking game instructive video
Attacking is surely one of the more difficult aspects in the game of backgammon. In the following instructive video, Itzhak Solsky guides us through a complex training game with the computer.
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How To Avoid Your Worst Blunders
Blunders. Let’s talk about Blunders.
Your worst ones.
How can you avoid them? Is there a method?
Continue to read: How To Avoid Your Worst Blunders — by Itzhak Solsky
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Introducing Access
Can our opponent really think they could use the space left behind our checkers as their own personal dumpster?
Is that even a safe approach?
Or are they in for some shocking surprises?
Read all about it (and more!) in my first backgammon article: Introducing Access.
— Itzhak Solsky