Name/Title
How to Play Today's BackgammonDescription
Elizabeth Clark Boyden didn’t just mail in excerpts of her July book for her 14-part syndicated newspaper column, but re-worked parts of it substantially, while also providing new updates on game developments such as the newly-available doubling cube, which hadn’t come into use by the time she submitted her final draft of 'The New Backgammon' for publication. A more committed historian may wish to compare all of her opening roll prescriptions to see whether they evolved over the intervening months, but the rest of us will find most intriguing the greater detail with which she describes doubling (article 11), chouette (article 12), scoring by matches or cube (article 13), and scoring by checkers (article 14).Publication Details
Publication Type
ArticlePeriodical
Indianapolis TimesPeriodical Type
NewspaperDate Published
circa 1930Time Period
Modern BackgammonOther Names and Numbers
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SequenceOther Number
1930_09_23
