1) Backgammona. Name: “Backgammon.docb. Contents: The whole game of backgammon is explained, including rules and strategies.c. Assessment: Quite well explained, even entertaining. A few diagrams are missing. Since the game is occasionally referred to in the text, it probably needs to be explained somewhere.2) Evaluation systemsa. Name: “Rating Systems.docb. Content: Rating systems are examined. There…
Content 1) Children’s games (1961 – 1978)2) Chess (1980 – 1983)a. Dortmund – London (Summer 1980)b. Nothing Summer 1980 – 1982 or: Germany — Hitchhiking Countryc. From Biel to Graz – a long journey (summer 1981)d. Graz 1981 – I am a national player!e. Krosno 1981 — Hello, Mr. Kasparov!f. Klausen 1982 — One top…
Content biographical 1) Children’s gamesa. Name: “Kinderspiele.docb. Period: 1961-1977c. Content: My 5 favourite children’s games, up to and including chess. Emphasis of course on playing and the intensity and perfection of it.d. Assessment: It can be interesting, also psychologically, to look for (and possibly find) a prehistory in childhood for my later path in life.2)…
Ordered chapter overview “Calculating luck – from the life of a player”. General chapters: 1) Preface2) Introduction3) Sport Game Tension4) The unloved child of the unloved child5) Bankruptcies6) The goat problem7) Insurances8) The hierarchy of games9) The payment morale10) Betting games11) Game developments12) Philosophical Chapters 13) My chaos theory14) Murphies law15) The event space16) The…
Synopsis This book essentially tells the story of my life as a professional player. Although the biography is the “red thread”, it nevertheless contains many details from a player’s practice that make it worthy of explanation. In this respect, the reader is not only made familiar with the world of playing, but is also initiated…
Exposé In this book I describe my career as a professional player and my life as a professional player. At the same time, I use numerous practical examples to explain how anyone can become a better player. In doing so, I present the numerous methods and possibilities how the reader can also become a good…
Since I lack any experience in writing an exposé, I write as I tell it and the Berliner describes it aptly as “free speech”: The work is primarily about gambling, playing for money, in other words, playing for money. I drew the motivation for writing it from everyday occurrences. These everyday occurrences are as follows:…
My theory of probability Since you are now holding the book in your hands and certainly had a motivation for it when you purchased it, I must naturally assume that the questions that arise also play a role for you. That you hope to find answers to them. Nevertheless, there is no harm in warning…
1) A little insight into the mental life of a player 2) Introduce the problem of “comparability of predictions”. So everything I have read or seen about this problem so far has unfortunately been very superficial and unhelpful. So you have studied all the previous chapters assiduously and learned absolutely nothing new. Never mind, then…
The summer of 1985. The realisation that backgammon was “my game”, that my (imaginary) skills could be perfectly combined there, I had long since gained in boundless overconfidence. I had read through all the available books and developed another feeling: in a previous life I must have been a backgammon pro. The gradually accumulating tournament…
