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THERE IS NO LUCK IN BACKGAMMON!!!!!!!!

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Sunday, 11 September 2011, at 1:01 p.m.

In Response To: THERE IS NO LUCK IN BACKGAMMON!!!!!!!! (GeorgeMJ23)

The answer to your point is that you will get to a 75 percent position more often than your opponent if you play skillfully.

To simply if, if you get an opening 3-1, were you lucky? No. Because in the long run, you and your opponent will start with a 3-1 just as often. If you are better than your opponent, you will win from that position at least 55 percent of the time, but he will not.

Everytime time "the best player in the world" gets a 3-1 and he is playing someone who does not play as well, his odds of winning are greater than 55 percent. Depending on the skill difference, his odds might be 60%. When he loses, it is not luck, it is because the odds tell us that he should and will lose from there about 40 percent. But if the other player gets the 3-1, he might start out with true odds of only 50 percent.

Your skill level changes the odds, and that is why backgammon is all skill.

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