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Backgammon Dice are NEVER precision dice

Posted By: Albert Steg
Date: Thursday, 25 August 2016, at 2:10 p.m.

In Response To: Backgammon Dice are NEVER precision dice (Phil Simborg)

Phil, you make a very slippery slide from "precision" to "fairness" here -- just because precision aren't absolutely "precise" does not mean they are not "fair." I would argue they remain fair unless the biases of the dice are (1) substantial enough to substantively affect the outcomes of games in the reasonably short term, (2) the advantages of the dice are reserved to only one of the players and/or (3) the bosses are fully understood by one player and not the other.

Just to be clear about the scale of the "problem" you are raising, are you asserting that you have a pair of serviceable precision dice that you have analyzed and which exhibit a bias substantial enough that you would alter your play based on them?

Your assertion that there is a problem here substantial enough to impel people to go toward electronic dice without providing data or at least conveying the degree of variation from ideal randomness comes off as disingenuous.

Just because you are (currently) offering this app for free does not mean you do not perceive a gain from the movement toward electronic dice. Your appetite for attention and being seen as a trend-setter is apparently insatiable.

You claim to do everything for "the good of the game." What purpose is truly served by promoting the notion that popular, quality backgammon equipment is "not on the level," and by implication unfair?

Whatever stats you show me, I will never, ever want to play with an electron app that you or anyone else brings to a game. The opportunities for it to be 'fixed' in some way is just so plainly easy to imagine. If people have gone to the lengths of building physical boards with magnetic systems designed to manipulate fixed dice, how much more likely are they to tinker with electronic systems that are wholly invisibly to physical inspection?

You are outspoken in coaching beginners that "Cheating" is one of the major factors contributing to success in backgammon. What better way to cheat than this?

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