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Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?

Posted By: Albert Steg
Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2015, at 6:58 p.m.

In Response To: Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past? (Daniel Murphy)

"I note, rather, a lot of opposition to (and infeasibility of implementing of) suggestions, such as longer tournaments, longer matches, and seeded flights, that would make our better players more likely to bring home the trophy, or the dough."

If one of the hopes of the backgammon community is to encourage more players to come and stay, one way to dash them would be to give the strongest players -- already favored by skill, and often most willing to purchase buy-backs -- a further advantage by seeding them as in tennis.

Is there a problem where we feel we have too many different faces winning tournaments?

Don't forget that one of the things that makes backgammon so much fun and such an exquisite $ game is precisely the degree to which a player stands a palpable chance to win in a field of stronger players. Finding additional ways to reward the strongest (and already most successful) is also a way to discourage others from playing at all.

If it's felt that we need more ways for the best players to be recognized for their prowess, there could be paper-and-pencil Quiz events! A series of say 25 problems are projected on a screen (or streamed to devices) and everybody writes their plays. Lowest error rate wins!

Messages In This Thread

• Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
  Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 11 January 2015, at 8:45 p.m.
  • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
    trichard -- Sunday, 11 January 2015, at 10:14 p.m.
    • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
      Mick Z -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 12:30 a.m.
    • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
      Colin Owen -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 6:20 a.m.
  • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
    Casper Van der Tak -- Sunday, 11 January 2015, at 10:24 p.m.
    • +1:-) *NM*
      garyo -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 2:02 p.m.
  • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
    Bob Koca -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 12:13 a.m.
  • Attempt at clarification
    Timothy Chow -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 5:25 p.m.
    • Attempt at clarification
      Bob Koca -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 7:15 p.m.
      • Attempt at clarification
        Taper_Mike -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 8:09 p.m.
        • Attempt at clarification
          Jakob Garal -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 9:50 p.m.
          • Attempt at clarification
            Taper_Mike -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 11:13 p.m.
        • Attempt at clarification
          Casper Van der Tak -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 10:48 p.m.
          • Attempt at clarification
            Tom Keith -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 11:42 p.m.
        • Attempt at clarification
          Jakob Garal -- Tuesday, 13 January 2015, at 1:57 p.m.
          • Attempt at clarification
            Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 13 January 2015, at 5:15 p.m.
          • Attempt at clarification
            Casper Van der Tak -- Tuesday, 13 January 2015, at 5:55 p.m.
        • Luck in chess
          Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 13 January 2015, at 6:24 p.m.
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            Wolfgang -- Saturday, 17 January 2015, at 4:36 p.m.
            • Luck in chess / Bill Robertie Position
              Philippe Michel -- Saturday, 17 January 2015, at 8:49 p.m.
              • That's great!
                Wolfgang -- Saturday, 17 January 2015, at 9:19 p.m.
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            Taper_Mike -- Wednesday, 21 January 2015, at 6:16 a.m.
    • Attempt at clarification
      Stick -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 8:47 p.m.
    • Attempt at clarification--the answer is obvious
      Phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 14 January 2015, at 8:37 a.m.
      • Attempt at clarification--the answer is obvious
        Albert Steg -- Wednesday, 14 January 2015, at 1:34 p.m.
  • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
    Chuck Bower -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 5:47 p.m.
    • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
      Bob Koca -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 7:36 p.m.
      • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
        Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 13 January 2015, at 6:38 p.m.
  • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
    Jakob Garal -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 6:28 p.m.
  • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
    ah_clem -- Monday, 12 January 2015, at 9:38 p.m.
  • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
    Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 13 January 2015, at 5:23 p.m.
    • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
      Albert Steg -- Tuesday, 13 January 2015, at 6:58 p.m.
  • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
    Albert Steg -- Tuesday, 13 January 2015, at 6:15 p.m.
    • Backgammon more of a "game of skill" now than in the past?
      Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 13 January 2015, at 10:54 p.m.