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Will we ever see a genuine backgammon prodigy? (Long)

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Tuesday, 29 July 2014, at 4:11 p.m.

In Response To: Will we ever see a genuine backgammon prodigy? (Long) (Jim Stutz)

The main question is whether enough kids will be motivated to play the game. Backgammon is currently not popular. I mean, I think of chess as unpopular, and backgammon is an order of magnitude more unpopular. When there aren't enough people playing, the chances of a genuine prodigy emerging are small.

But if there were enough motivated kids worldwide, then I believe that 4 PR would be considered just a decent player, nothing special. You wouldn't be considered a prodigy unless you were playing under 3 PR. Backgammon (at the 3PR level) isn't that deep a game. Go is much deeper, yet some kids turn pro when they're 12.

I do agree that a kid is not going to write great literature. This has less to do with language mastery than with depth of lived experience. I can imagine a kid writing a bestseller (though I can't think of any offhand—I don't think that Anne Frank, for example, counts). The Da Vinci Code has sold millions of copies even though the writing quality is terrible. But a kid is not going to write Crime and Punishment or Les Misérables.

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