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Online Tribute to Late Backgammon Guru
Friends, admirers and past opponents pay tribute to backgammon player and author Walter Trice, who died early this week at 60. Walter Trice of Massachusetts has been playing backgammon for over 30 years, championed many ABT events, wrote two influential, highly praised backgammon books and developed several backgammon programs. Trice was also a rated chess master who wrote articles about chess to different publications.
Until the American Backgammon Tour heads announce on a formal tribute to the late Walter Trice, who has been an active tournament player in the organization events, there is a consensus about naming the Effective Pip Count, a formula calculating the player's pip count and wastage at a given position that was developed and became known thanks to Trice's help, will become known from now on as the "Trice Count".
"Walter was a dazzling flash of light without any unnecessary noise" lamented backgammon colleague Mike Corbett at the BGonline.org Forums, while Jake Jacobs, Trice's partner in the writing of Can A Fish Taste Twice As Good?, a book focusing on "cube decisions in matches between mismatched opponents", recalled the making of the book " I learned a lot from Walter during the year and a half of our collaboration, and consider myself privileged to have had that opportunity."
There was unanimous agreement about Walter Trice being the perfect gentleman as well as a brilliant backgammon player and theorist of the game. Even those who did not know him personally testified on the importance of Backgammon Boot Camp, his 2004 backgammon book in their studying. "If Paul Magriel's "Backgammon" is the Bible of the game," wrote a user named Dan Pelton, "then Walter's "Backgammon Boot Camp" is surely its' New Testament".
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