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Championship BackgammonEntry/Object ID
BG-2026.0051Description
This book provides a fascinating time-capsule view of backgammon as played at the highest levels circa 1973, in a trans-Atlantic throw-down between Barclay Cooke and his son Walter against a British team of Joe Dwek and Philip Martyn, both backgammon writers in their own right. In a somewhat misguided attempt at equalizing the luck factor, the matches were played "duplicate" style, with a single dice roller providing numbers for opposite players on the two boards (a practice dating back to backgammon parties in the early 1930's). Of course, the two games diverge so quickly that the numbers no longer "mean" the same thing for both games. It seems implied that the commentator's voice is Rene Orlean, but as Barclay Cooke is co-author as well as contestant, the analysis clearly bears the stamp of his disastrous "pure play style," promoted in his Paradoxes and Probabilities published two years previously.Other Names and Numbers
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1980-01-14Book Details
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1980Time Period
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