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Would never play under these circumstances

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Tuesday, 23 August 2011, at 5:14 p.m.

In Response To: Would never play under these circumstances (Ray Kershaw)

Ray Kershaw wrote:

"slower, weaker players don't actually play any better when given more time to think. This is true in almost any strategy game, not just backgammon."

This seems to be a tautology.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. Back when clocks were not standard in chess, some tournaments would drag on a long time. When people were forced to play faster, in general the quality of play did not drop, at least among "average" players. This isn't tautological. Even if you're a weak player, you can still play better or worse, and a priori, perhaps you play better when you are given more time to think. Empirically, though, this doesn't seem to be the case very often.

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