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The advertiser anc ie ageney assume liabity forall content of advertisement and accept responsiblity for any slams orksingtherelrom agaist the publisher oF eGIOrs Dare to see or distribute products or services which appear in GAMNION are subject tal laws and regulations nd ae vaid whore co prohibited CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Allow six weeks advance notice and include old as wll as new address. GAMMON/seet ee eeea eer] ee eee eer eck ne eke eae eee Se a EZRA TISSONA Es Is He The World's Best? When Ezra Tissona speaks, the earth lays back ite ears and roars, Tissona is a 34- year-old Israeli whose reputation in back: gammon is formidable, His supporters consider him a genius, one of the game's reat natural players. His detractors call him a magician, even a dice manipulator. He is respected, feared, loved and hated — but never ignored Ignoring Tissona would be impossible His coal black eyes seem to project laser beams. The intensity of his expression weighs on his shoulders and hunches them, His face still bears the scars of @ childhood disease, Not until a smile washes across his semetic features does fone sense the warmth and puckish humor that is also part of Tissona. He speaks five languages: Hebrew, Arabic, English, Span: ish and Grunt. His voice is either menac. ing or luxurious. He grandstands his en- tranees, always surrounded by an entour- Candace Nyles Mayeron ‘age consisting of at least one brother (he Gammon/7RENO ae a) Rue at? EXonisRemara Is has four) and an odd henchman ar two, They almost always dress in black. Although he now mingles with the glit tery, international backgammon set as though he were born ta it, Tissona learned his game in the streets and marketplaces Of Israel, and refined his skills in the Is raeli army, where "So long as we weren’t fighting, we were playing day and night, night and day. Listen,” says Tissona, “I'm a good backgammon player because I have a feel jing for the gamo. | was born with this game, Sometimes in the middle of a game you have to gamble. You have to have @ feeling. If you feel the game, the mistakes will be nothing.” Tissona plays instinctively — by the seat-of his-pants, Were he a tennis player, he'd be Ilie Nastase. His natural talent has no liking for the droll world af probabil- ities. “1 never count,” he grumbles. (Some players claim Tissona doesn’t even know ‘how to take a pip count.) “I can see the situation straightaway, running game or ‘things like this, I don’t compute like Paul Magriol does, for example. Lwas the worst in high school in mathematics. Maybe Ma- griol is better than me in mathematics, but for backgammon you don't need that. | big mistake if somebody think he have to know, Sometimes, is not good to know all these things.” Instead Tissona uses psy: chology. “Each game | play different,” he says. “I tell you, | never play the same. You cannot just play the game, you have to play against your opponent.” Tissona’s rough-and-tumble Israeli style was honed to its current sleekness in the ‘gambling parlors of London, Ho arrived there on holiday at the age af 27, an ex bus driver with $500 in his pocket. “I wasn’t such a good player when | came to London. | think Israelis are the worst players in the world, Average Europeans are better than the best Israelis, Only the Israelis that live some time in Europe or U.S. become good, After I start to play in London, I saw different moves, and it was the first time in my life | saw these moves. They are putting so much pressure on me. It never happened to me before. So I start putting my moves with the other moves, ‘mixing them together, and that is what happened. They couldn't mix the Israeli move with the European move, but | 8/GAMMON ae Berna sme three eri? could, because | can see things Tissona met Tony Mancini, the former owner of the White Elephant nightory and himself a very competent player. “after | beat him he brought all the best players in the world over to play against ime — Joe Dwek, Philip Martyn, Lewis De- yong, Barclay Cooke, Paul Magriel, Gino Scalamandre and Stanley Tomchin. | beat all of thom, Nobody won from me one penny. We played up to $2,000 a point. Took three weeks. Day and night. One time | played three days nonstop. In all | ‘made almost a half-million dollars ‘So then they start to say | am @ ma sician, or | know how to control the dice, and this and that,” chortles Tissona, “but I tell you | always played with the other guy's dice, board, everything. So they broughta special machine which rolled the dice. | beat them with the machine too! Tissona relishes the memory of the country Israeli boy trouncing the city slickers, “This was the first time | played good players and the first time for big stakes. | didn’t play for big stakes in Ir rael, because I didn't know I was so good, But people told me Mancini was one of the best. So after | beat him, I had no fear of playing Joe Dwek because they were saying the same things about Dwek. | think, ‘IF this is Tony, so what Joe has 10 be?" Of course Joe is much better than Tony, but I didn’t know that. Is good thing too, or | might navor have played Joe and the others!" ‘The lobby of the Britannia Beach Ho: tel in Nassau, site of the 1878 World Championships, is swarming with back gammon players. Boards are set on lobby tables for impromptu chouettos. Dice rat tle in trip cups, ice cubes clink in glasses, checkers click across felt and leather fields (On the side a crowd gathers around a dark pocket. It's Tissona and his black-shirted gophers. The game is Tissonarstyle, not exactly headsup. He is playing a team consisting of Roger Low, Jason Lester and their friend from New York. They are permitted to consult. Tissona is alone, “1 cannot find a player to play against me alone,” laments Tissona. “Always it is this way now. I play alone and they are in teams. Usually they come three, tive six, ten playors against me.” At $300 per, TES Gene sce) Seale Peet un nea] ee Tissona wins seven points Actually, $300 is small stakes these days for Tissona, That he will play them for that amount js a tribute to the skills ‘of Low and Loster. “I don’t like to play for less than $300 a point, | prefer at least 4 thousand.”” One might doubt there aro any s0 foolhardy as to plunk upwards of $1,000 a point to play against him — he sayshe never gives an edge — but says there is no shortage of opponents. “I have enough poopie. They are not from the backgammon group, certainly. But | have people all over the world. A lot of ‘Arabs, South Americans, Germans. Very rich people, They like the challenge to play against me. “The most I ever played for was $50, 000 a point. It happened years ago, in Germany. | was winning about a million dollars, but I knew ho was not going to pay me so much. So I purposely lost back $750,000 and then he paid ma the $250, 000!" Tissona lets out @ roar and slaps is knee at the joke. “Was very rich Ger- ‘man industrialist. Everybody knows him, Good guy." An accomplished poker player also {he considers his poker just slightly inferior to his backgammon), Tissona is the quir: tessent gambler. “Big money sessions | never lose, only win. One time | lost 15 points to Paul Magriel, but that was after I beat him for 87 points, Somebody might win some points from me one day, but lover the week, I will be the winner.” Lest the reader think his only forte is the money side of backgammon, consider his tournament record: he won the Con: solation of the fist tournament he ever ert tered (Plaza Hotel, New York, 1973); has won the World Championships (Nassau, 1975); Clermont (London); and Miami He loves playing in tournaments but isn't as confident of his potential success. “In toumament you need patience. I have no patience, When you play tournament it's like... 1don'tknow how to say in English like being handcuffed, You cannot play the same game, You cannot take ‘chances, you cannot take risks, you can: not double the same you double tor money. Don't get me wrong, | don’t think im a bad tournament player — I've won a lot — but I know the chances to win arereece) Cera Br Pca eae ar) es very small.” Unlike many name players, Tissona does not get involved in lengthy money sessions during 3 tournament week. “Tournaments are the worst places for me to catch people,” he says. "Everybody knows me, So famous you know. And al: ways they buy me for the big price in the calcutta, 50 everybody's afraid of me.” If not money games, how does this superstar of players occupy his time while waiting for his next match? Ezra Tissona, arguably the best backgammon player in the world, spends his idle tournament time watching the beginners! “Is true! | swear to God | like to watch begin: ners, Beginners domoves nobody else can think about. Sometimes | see si uation with beginners it couldn't happen to me, and | see moves | couldn't think about. Take for example a number that all good players would play the same. But beginners, they don't know. They play different, move after move. Then, maybe you can catch one move you didn’t think about even. Good player cannot think of it. It’s the only place | can learn something!” He is friendly, but not buddy-buddy with the other backgammon champions, | tell you something, everyone when he ' losing to me... al the time they aro complaining | know how to roll the dice, | know this and that.” He sighs. “It is very hard to find someone honest enough to say, ‘Goad luck to you, you are a good player’ As for himself, he has the most respect for the game of Kiumars Motak: hhasses, an Iranian champion, Tissona has maintained his roots in Tel Aviv, where he operates a furniture store Mota) Daca Ranta] vei) Perea ELL and a Wimpy’s hamburger outlet he pur- chased with his backgammon earnings. His wife seldom leaves to accompany him to tournaments, preferring, he says, to re main at home with their theee children, a S-yearold daughter and two sons, 6 and 24, Nene yet play backgammon, “In the U.S. so early they are playing backgammon? | didn’t know. Well, they are too small to play, but I am sure my son, he is going to be better than ma. This | can promise. | know because / am going to teach him good, from the beginning. “Listen, when’ you teach somebody from the beginning good, he must be good. There is no way he going to be bad. Even if he doesn’t have the mind for backgam- mon he must be good. Listen, if I wanted 10 | would never again have to gamble at backgammon. | could make the same money just teaching. | have people from Wostern hemisphere to Israel lining up to take lessons. And for big money, to0. But don't like to teach, For friends only | do it, as favor. But teaching for money is boring, It is not that I'm worried they could then beat me. Noway that! Because what | know about backgammon, I don't bolieve anybody in the world ina hundrod ‘years can learn what | know about back: gammon. Because my instincts are so ‘good for backgammon. That means that ‘evory time | can make the best move, and nobody else can make the best move. Lis ten, anything you can show ma in back: ‘gammon | can deal with it in one second, even if I didn't see it before, | can gives hundred situations to any other champion = who is the best you think — and I going to give him the choice to pick any side he wants. Well, I tell you he’s going to lose ‘both sides. | promise you. And if he gives ime situation, | will win both sides!" If Tissona sounds arrogant, consider that his assessment has been ‘ried and tested, and he has not been found wanting, ‘And still, his assessment is tempered with reason: “OF course | make mistakes, what you think?! Everybody make mistakes, Sometimes people come to me and say, “You did this and this,’ and | see the posi tion, and I don’t know howr I did that but I did, But 1 tell you, | am ready to play against anybody in the world right now, and for any money." Get The Record Straight !! Sterling Publishing Company represents the Guinness Book of World Records. When contacted in April by Christopher Skwarko, age 20, and Benjamin Ascone, 19 — both students at St. Peter's College in New Jersey — a Sterling representative detailed the requirements necessary when submitting a record for consideration. The students then logged 100 hours and 5 minutes, playing 1,524 games of duly witnessed and recorded backgam- mon, attempting to set a respectable record, worthy of consideration as the first backgammon entry in the famed book. You see, they had been told there was not currently a backgammon category. They were not told of a similar inquity made in 1978by Dick Newcomb and Greg Peterson of Rockford, lIlinois, who had been diracted to submit an entry compar: able to the current world chess record, Dick and Greg compliad by subimitting proof of an epic 181 backgammon hours, conducted over the 1978 4th of July holiday. ‘There is no backgammon category in the 1980 edition. Neither of these, nor any other backgammon records submitted are ‘being considered currentiy by Guinness. GAMMON, of course, is interested in hearing about any such frivolity — wheth: er done as exhibitions for charity, or as attompts to better another's record. 1 fool andl his cube are soon parted | BACKGAMMON IS NOT a crap-shooting experience nor n “unreachable” grey area of mathematics and probabilities, but, an exact science of return per investment Advanced Students seeking control of backgammon's subtleties, should contact: Gaby Horowitz - (213) 936-3613 ‘Only the very wealthy and the highly skilled can afford to continue playing ‘without his advice! Gammon/9THE i cw TED BARR NTERME This section is specifically designed to provide the early players with a strong base capable of supporting under- standing and use of the less obvious concepts. ‘So many new players have questions regarding the cube | am devoting this column to the considerations essential to cube strategy. In my opinion the cube must always be used when playing backgammon. ‘Whether you play for money, points or “who does the dishes,’ the cube max- imizes the excitement, eliminates the cat-and-mouse aspects and heightens the skill level for effective strategies. If your mistakes are costly, itis not likely you will repeat those samo mistakes often. Knowing when to accept or dectine a double is the essential measure of skill among backgammon players. Some players’ theory of doubling is to accept the cube only when you are the favorite, and to offer it only when you are winning the game. Anyone who believes this theory is naive, and must consider a number of factors when determining how to handle the dou: bling cube, Generally, in the early to middie stage of the game, you should have a three-roll lead before considering a double. Your opponent, by the same token, should also have a three-roll lead before offering the cube to you. If he does not, you probably should accept. iagram Should White Double? 18/GAMMON Ata late stage of the game 2 one-roll lead can be sufficient to double. With few rolls left there is less likelihood of a reverse in position. In Diagram #1 White has a half-roll lead, and it is his tum to roll. Should ‘he double? Absolutely! Iris late in the game. A half-roll lead is commanding since Black must roll doubles on one of his next two rolls to win. If White fails to double here, he gives Black the free opportunity to roll doubles. Furthermore, Black may only have one more roll if White rolls doubles. ‘White should use the cube to force Black out of the game and eliminate the possibility of his getting lucky. Black should dectine, since to double the stakes in the hope of a long shot {rolling doubles) would be ridiculous. ‘Another factor which bears consid- eration in doubling is your position on the board, which is just as significant as your lead in the race. A substantial lead in the race will not win if, ase result of your board position, your lead dissipates. ‘Should White Doubl Diagram #2 illustrates the impor- tance of analyzing your position on the board. Here White holds a command- ing five-roll lead, but should he double? ‘Although White has an adequate lead, his concern at this point is escap- ing. If he does not escape within the next three turns he will most likely lose the game. As Black brings more of his men around, he will have the additional builders to put White on the bar and close his home board. Even if Black fails to hit, failure to escape will result in the dissipation of White's own home board, with three negative effects. First, until his runner escapes, any large numbers rolled by White will be wasted. This is like taking away a por- tion of his turns. Second, if White should hit Black later in the game, White will not be able to contain him long enough to escape, since his home board will be virtually wide open. Third, if White does hit Black, it may result in White's having 2 man hit when Black re-enters from the bar. Remember, when determining whether or not to give your opponent the cube, itis critical that you be aware of your position on the board as well as, your lead in the race Another factor to consider is the position of the cube. By position | do ot mean whether the cube is on 2 or 8 or whatever. | mean who owns it Possession of the cube is most signifi- cant because whoever owns it controls the stakes or points for which the game is being played. ‘When the game begins, either player may double his opponent. Since you may double or be doubled, you are not giving up exclusive access to the doubling cube. However, when the cube is in your possession (by virtue of an earlier dou- ble by your opponent) you must be more conservative about doubling as you are also giving up the exclusive control of the cube.DIATE Diagram #3 ‘Should White Dou An example of this distinction can be seen in Diagram #3. White has an ad vantage in the game, Should he double? Yes, if the cube is neutral (in the middie). He does not own it, and therefore, by doubling is not giving up exclusive control of it. But, if White does own it (it is on his side of the board) he should nor double, He has only a slight advantage and giving up exclusive control of the cube is not yet justified. Exclusive control of the cube is valuable. Guard it zealously by not making a loose double. If you possess the cube and the game goes well, you can increase your wealth or point posi tion in the match by doubling. If the game turns sour, you can play it our, at no additional premium, and hope your ‘opponent makes a mistake or that the dice turn your way. To have these op- tions you must own the cube. Finally, when dealing with the cube, consider your opponent's attitude. If he is leery of the cube and tends to turn down your doubles when you have only a slight advantage, by all means double him, force him out when your advantage is very slight. If on the other hand, your opponent is stubborn and finds it difficult to decline your doubles, you can afford to wait until you have a commanding lead before doubling. He wil still accept. So make sure you want him to accept be- fore offering the cube. Observing certain characteristics in your opponent's game can give you a tremendous edge. Nearly all games of skill reward the player who observes his opponent's behavior. In poker you analyze your opponent's betting habits. In bridge, you should consider your opponent's bidding ability. In golf, you look for the weakness in your opponent's. game, be it putting, stamina or whatever. In backgammon, the player who observes his op” onent’s doubling habits or even his ‘game turns sour, you can play it out, at no additional premium, and hope your routine strategy moves has a marked advantage over the player who just plays his own game, oblivious to the playing patterns of his opponents. Until you have taken all of theso fac- tors into consideration, you are not totally prepared to accept or decline, offer or withhold the doubling cube. If, however, you weigh these factors carefully, your doubling cube play will most likely be more effective than your opponent's. Remember, the experts use the dou- bling cube so effectively that even if they forfeit three games out of four, they make it all back — and then some in the few games they win. Send us unusual backgammon cartoons, pictures or historical backgammon information. If we print yours, we'll send you a Gammon T-Shirt. To slot is human, t0 cover is devine; ‘hut to point on his blot isa real winner EVERYTHING IS A TAKE By "Jersey" Jim Pasko | recently read an article that stated, contrary to common belief, 25% is not ‘the minimum necessary chance to win that justifies taking a double (in no- gammon positions). The article dem: onstrated that, in at least one case, a 20% chance of winning was sufficient, to justify accepting the double. The following example shows the minimum acceptable chance of win ning (and to justify a take), is actually 18.75%! Suppose a particular game has developed into a race and Black doubles. Furthermore, suppose White has some way of determining that he can reach the following position 25% of the time, and lose 7 5 % Now, since there is no equity gained or lost by Black in either accepting or declining the recube, then let us assume he takes. It should be easy to ‘see that after the original acceptance, White will win 25% of the games. Multiply this 25% by his chance of win- ning after Black accepts the redouble, or 25% x 75%. Therefore, in this original position, White has a legitimate take, even though his win: ning chance is only 18.75%: Itis fairly simple to prove that (in no- gammon positions) this is the mini- mum winning chance to justify a take {steaming is not a justifiable reason). There are certain, one-way gammon positions in which’a smaller winning percentage allows an acceptance of the cube. In fact, if every win were to lead to a backgammon for the person accepting the cube and all his losses were single games, then a 12.5% chance of winning would be the mini- mum. My God, is everything a take?! No, of course not. The gammon chances on either side influence the drop/take decisions a great deal. However, there are many positions that appear to be very bad, which in fact are actually good takes. GAMMON/19THE 1979 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH ........ The final match for the 1979 World Championship of Backgammon in Monte Carlo pitted Jeff Westheimer of the United States against Luigi Villa of Italy, West heimer, a top-ranked competitor in both backgammon and bridge, had reached the finals by defeating El-Zanaty of Egypt. Villa, regarded as Italy’s best player, had pvercome Karl Laubmeler of Germany 21-18 in the other semi-final match, After some uneventful early play, West heimer scored gammons in the 10th and 12th games to take a tremendous 15-5 lead. Villa then narrowed the gap some: what, but after 20 games, Westheimer still led 21-13, The 21st game proved to be the turning point of the match, Luigi Villa (13). Jeff Westheimer (21) Block White 1 142) 8/8 61-2) 12/18 12a 2161) 13/8 615 Since White has two blots in the outfield, | prefer 24/23 with the 1 2 (5.21 12/18 16/20 A botter plan is 14-21, duplicating 3's Apparently useless alls in the opening, like this 6:2, can often be played to best ‘advantage by looking for duplication Black doubler White soepte ‘A good double and @ proper take, given the score in the match. Villa cannot afford to wait, as a number of sequences would not allow Westheimer to take next turn. This would not, of course, be a money double 3. 19-2) 8/6 24/22 (65) 19/2402) 172212 4 (2.1) Baei23 Waite play 63 28/GAMMON 4 (63) 17201771 A very difficult position, If Black's home board position were weaker, the clearly correct play would be 17/23x 20/23, creating maximum blitz potential. White would then be prepared to hit loose on the 4 and 5 points as Black re-entered, tuying forashutout, This strategy is not so cffective here, since a return hit by Black, coupled with his strong home board, would make him a favorite, Westheimer Improves his overall position, trying to reach equilibrium before playing for the 8. (a) Borin Bad, Black ruins his position for some ‘momentary safety. He should play Bar/21 13/1x, preserving his strong inner board and awaiting developments, With the 5 point now open, Westheimer will be enti- ted to take more liberties with an allout blitz, which he might not otherwise have dared to do. 1319 8/12 5. Isa) ears 7112 6, (4) fax 8/4 Vd rather make an outside point with 8/3 13/9. 6 143) Boro? White could hit two men (Bar/3x 19/23x) although the absence of cover numbers for the blot on the 2 point makes this play less appealing, Probably the best play with the 4 is 12/16, bringing another builder 0 bear on the vital 4 point at little risk White w play 24 7 (aa) s4/ietay A play that might have cost the World Championship. White could win the whole match with a gammon in this game, and this was certainly the time to play for i. Simply 7/23x was better than the play he made, but best loaks like 19/23(2)x 7/16 (1) eliminating the 2 point and try. ing for the shutout, 8. (3:2) fae/23 13/10 (5-4) 12/21%1 9. (62) Bar/239/3 (62) 19/21 19121 10. (411 4/3 1016 (SA) 12/6 Correct. White breaks the midpoint while he still has three men trapped behind a 5: point prime. 1, (52) 978 13/11 12.5 118 (2a) ten (65) 12/18 19/28 Forced, but very awkward. White can eas ily get into trouble from this formation. 13, 1) 815 615 (1) 18/22 I this position were presented as a prob: Jem, virtually everyone would find the correct play: 19/22 19/20. Under the pressure of the World Championship, itis not so easy. The play in the game loaves, White stripped and subject to four in mediate double-blot numbers (65 and 5-4) plus potential future troubles. 14,161) 2916 ‘Technically 6/4 is correet with the 1, giv ing three numbers to close the 2 point instead of two {double 2's and 4-2 instead of 43), 14, (65) 18/24 19/24 15, (ati 2a/1/1ax 0 18. 143) 6/2 5/2