Magriel's Backgammon published in 1976 is still considered the "bible of backgammon". But our insight about the correct play has changed since good backgammon software is available (Jelly Fish ™ made the breakthrough in 1994). So some of Magriel's recommendations did not survive the bots and are not correct from today's view 1) . The following table contains the major errors. It does not claim to be complete, but it should contain the most errors.

I recommend to mark those positions where Magriel probably erred with a pencil in the book before starting to read it. You can study it much more relaxed then.

Where the best move in the column "Best Move" contains a link, you can have a look at the position and the rollout results 2)  by clicking on the link.

The table contains problems from section 2 of his book. Aditionally some of his recommendation about the opening moves are not state of the art any more. For the best opening moves have a look at my article Die Eröffnung (Teil 1) (currently only available in German).