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Duplicate backgammon?

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 5:31 p.m.

Has anyone ever tried duplicate backgammon? That is, people play in teams of two. A set of rolls is secretly generated in advance by the tournament director, and two games are played in parallel with the same rolls, with the members of a team playing opposite halves of the roll sequence.

Ignoring the logistical problems of implementing duplicate backgammon, would duplicate backgammon significantly increase the skill/luck ratio or not? For annoying sequences like "52S 55 dance" it seems that duplicate backgammon would be a big plus, but perhaps in practice, the two parallel games would diverge too quickly for the duplicate rolls to make much difference.

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• Duplicate backgammon?
  Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 5:31 p.m.
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    jdg -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 5:50 p.m.
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    likesbg -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 6:09 p.m.
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    Gregg Cattanach -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 6:18 p.m.
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    Phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 7:00 p.m.
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      Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 8:41 p.m.
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        Phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 12:45 a.m.
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          Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 1:20 a.m.
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            Phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 4:58 a.m.
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    Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 7:04 p.m.
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    Maik Stiebler -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 9:43 p.m.