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backgammon contest nomenclature proposal

Posted By: Tom Keith
Date: Saturday, 24 December 2011, at 2:24 a.m.

In Response To: backgammon contest nomenclature proposal (Chuck Bower)

Hi Chuck,

Your idea makes good sense. Presumably the word "match" comes from a tournament drawsheet where two matching names play each other. Logically, all the play between those players should constitute a match. And your proposed "set" is played to a set number of points, so that works too.

But the term match in backgammon has been associated for so long to a series of games that I think it would be hard to change this usage. Think of the terminology that would have to change:

  • "match play" becomes "set play",
  • "DMP" becomes "DSP",
  • "match equity table" becomes "set equity table", etc.

Maybe it would be easier to reverse the terms you propose: A match continues to be a series of games to a given number of points, and a set is the collection of matches that determines the winner of the round.

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