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"They have limited access to the game for foreigners . . ."

Posted By: lenny
Date: Friday, 30 July 2010, at 6:23 a.m.

That's a brief extract from Larry's doomed attempt to get the implications and sequelae of robotic clock controls to be evaluated realistically.

"They have limited . . ." is probably too much the active voice, but here is some data from Wednesday on a game that is having a much different degree of international merging.

The round of 8 in the Spingold, the main event of the Bridge Summer Nationals, was played in New Orleans on Wednesday. There were 46 participants on the 8 teams. 26 of them were foreigners. Including 5 Bulgarians and 2 Egyptians. The primary event at the Spring Nationals in Reno was won by 6 Frenchmen. This has been a multi-year trend - the major US tournaments very well attended by foreign players, including Russians and Poles, as well as the usual suspects.

Backgammon is stunningly parochial. Major foreign players don't come to US events, as far as I can tell. A handful of US players showed up at the self-denominated World Championship earlier this month.

Poker, of course, has a large trans-national participation.

Is backgammon shriveling, or merely in stasis?

Messages In This Thread

• "They have limited access to the game for foreigners . . ."
  lenny -- Friday, 30 July 2010, at 6:23 a.m.
  • "They have limited access to the game for foreigners . . ."
    Rodney Lighton -- Friday, 30 July 2010, at 6:27 a.m.
    • "They have limited access to the game for foreigners . . ."
      lenny -- Friday, 30 July 2010, at 6:35 a.m.
      • "They have limited access to the game for foreigners . . ."
        Leonardo Jerkovic -- Friday, 30 July 2010, at 7:42 a.m.
  • "They have limited access to the game for foreigners . . ."
    Steve Mellen -- Friday, 30 July 2010, at 3:09 p.m.
    • "They have limited access to the game for foreigners . . ."
      John Stryker -- Friday, 30 July 2010, at 3:53 p.m.
  • "They have limited access to the game for foreigners . . ."
    Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 30 July 2010, at 4:52 p.m.
    • "They have limited access to the game for foreigners . . ."
      lenny -- Friday, 30 July 2010, at 10:44 p.m.
      • "They have limited access to the game for foreigners . . ."
        Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 31 July 2010, at 12:26 a.m.