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Dice Rage: Do they have this problem in Japan and Denmark?
Posted By: Jim Stutz In Response To: SVO...picking up the dice early in finals? (benf)
Date: Thursday, 6 September 2018, at 1:59 a.m.
The real problem with dice rage is not so much the childish whining itself, but the ugly behavior toward one's opponent that it so often leads to. The dice whiner sincerely feels that he has been unjustly wronged by the dice gods, so he is frustrated, and angry, and wounded, and resentful. Not infrequently, he is spoiling for a fight after a few bad shakes, and he will seek to bait his opponent into a petty argument (provided the opponent is not a giant, or an asshole buddy) at the slightest provocation. I only play a couple of ABT tournaments a year, and I started playing just a few years ago, but I have been on the receiving end of this stripe of unpleasantness, and similar variations, more times than I can remember.
From what I understand (hearsay, admittedly), they don’t seem to have this dice-rage problem in, for example, Japan or Denmark – at least, not nearly to the extent that we have to endure here on the ABT in the USA. OK, Americans have arguably fallen behind the Danes and the Japanese in backgammon skill, but this deficiency is at least defensible. (We don’t have time to get good at the game because we’re in church all day, praising the Lord. We work too hard! Our wives/husbands won’t let us play. The sun barely rises in Sapporo and Copenhagen from October to March – What else is there to do all day except stay indoors and become a backgammon expert? And so forth. ). But there is no good excuse for the pervasive bad sportsmanship in backgammon in the USA. It is the single biggest threat to the growth of the game in this country, IMO.
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