How Can I Keep from Dancing? (Coil)

An editor at Simon and Schuster requested “a book like Paul Magriel’s” to compete with a rival publisher. A list of books by “Paul Magriel” reveals that most are about the dance. Coincidentally, “dancing” is a colloquial term for failing to enter from the bar, something that is seldom good for a backgammon player. As the author finds less and less new theory to discover and explain, this book introduces annotated matches in which established theories are applied.