Holding Game Guru, by Jacob "Stick" Rice, Backgammon Book

Holding Game Guru, by Jacob "Stick" Rice, Backgammon Book

Very good book with minor annoyances

The content is excellent and you will certainly learn a lot from it. As with other Galaxy books, however, editing is horrible. Rather, it is non-existent. The good news, here, is that this author is a native English speaker. As the content moves forward, a fair number of positions are deemed no-brainers by the author with no further commentary. Not sure why their inclusion is necessary. Returning to the bright side, the book is made of quality paper that will hold up over the years.

EXCELLENT WORK

An excellent work of 300 holding game positions!!The greatest value is to be found in the No Double and Pass decisions!! The way every feature affects the cube decision is revealing!! However the gratest surprise was the following:Almost all of the positions are a Double/Take and even the Non Double positions have 65-70% winning chances!! This means that in chouette games the attacker is always better (because he has saved his back checkers or he is about to safety them) and the defender has always chances for a hit (except for the few pass decisions). So except from the few Non Double and Pass Desicions I may get wrong, IF I ALWAYS Double/Take I will be 90% correct! Maybe not in match games but I must study Nick Blasier's book (Adjusting for match play) for that! Thanks!