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Hypothetical for Steve Hast

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Friday, 17 August 2012, at 12:54 p.m.

In Response To: What a shame (Steve Hast)

Steve Hast: For all my formative years playing Chess WITH a clock, including speed chess matches as well, I found Backgammon refreshing NOT having clock usage.

I completely understand that. I hope you also acknowledge and understand that there is a large and growing contingent of players who feel quite the opposite.

In terms of attendance, there are two sets of players:

A: The set of players who would play in a clocked tournament but not an unclocked tournament. [That's me.]

B: The set of players who would play in an unclocked tournament but not a clocked tournament.

(There is another, larger set of people for whom clock policy does not affect attendance.)

So my question to you, Steve Hast: I think you believe that right now, set B is bigger than set A. What if you gain clear evidence in the future, that set A is bigger than set B? Will you (1) change your format, (2) keep your format, or (3) stop running backgammon tournaments?

No fair saying, "I won't answer because I don't believe that will ever happen." I submit this to you purely as a hypothetical. But I don't think you'll answer that way -- I believe you're open minded enough to give your honest appraisal of what you would do.

JLee

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