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backgammon contest nomenclature proposal

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Friday, 23 December 2011, at 10:39 p.m.

In tennis the hierarchy is game, set, match. The most common backgammon (tournament) competitions involve a match comprised of games -- first to reach N points winning. But for at least a couple of decades (popularized by the World Cup) there is a perfectly analogous to tennis competition where the first player to win M 'matches' wins.

Rather than saying "first to win M matches..." why not "first to win M sets...". For the more common competitions where a single 'set' is also the length of a match there is no need to change the commonly used wording -- the format for a round -- a single set -- is still a (complete) match.

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