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lynch law in Chicago?

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Thursday, 9 June 2016, at 12:44 a.m.

In Response To: lynch law in Chicago? (Michel Lamote)

Michel Lamote wrote:

I cannot imagine a chess player having to point out to his opponent that he is about to run out of time.

There is certainly an enormous difference in culture between chess and backgammon regarding this particular point. I was quite surprised by this when I first learned about it; you can read a long discussion about it here. It seems that many backgammon players not only feel that it is an absolute moral imperative to remind the opponent about the clock, but they cannot even begin to conceive of a culture in which not reminding the opponent about the clock is acceptable behavior.

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