On Doubling in Tournament Backgammon

Norman Zadeh
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Norman Zadeh: Columbia University

Management Science, 1977, vol. 23, issue 9, 986-993

Abstract: A strategy is determined which takes into account a player's skill, the score of the match, the value of the current game, and the possibility of winning a double-game (a gammon). The strategy described here has worked quite well in practice.

Date: 1977
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