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World Backgammon Rating

Posted By: happyjuggler0
Date: Wednesday, 30 July 2008, at 3:49 a.m.

In Response To: World Backgammon Rating (Daniel Murphy)

I agree that it is doubtful that it would happen for practical cost reasons if nothing else. However from my days as a (live) chess tourney player a couple of decades ago, I can tell you that an awful lot of chess players really cared a lot about improving their ratings. Actually, playing online on two or three bg sites not for money, I wanted to get my rating as high as reasonably possible.

So I can see a lot of players wanting a rating system for competitive reasons. However I can also see some players who would prefer to quasi-sandbag by not having a rating system and thus partially hiding their skill from cash game players who might otherwise look up their rating and say "uh, thanks for the offer for $100 a point, but no thanks, you'd simply be stealing my money".

Messages In This Thread

• World Backgammon Rating
  Fernando Rocha -- Tuesday, 29 July 2008, at 8:30 p.m.
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    Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 29 July 2008, at 9:19 p.m.
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      Mislav Radica -- Tuesday, 29 July 2008, at 10:41 p.m.
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        jdg -- Wednesday, 30 July 2008, at 1:47 p.m.
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      happyjuggler0 -- Wednesday, 30 July 2008, at 3:49 a.m.
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      Fernando Rocha -- Wednesday, 30 July 2008, at 8:26 p.m.