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Posted By: Stanley E. Richards
Date: Saturday, 2 August 2008, at 9:47 p.m.

In Response To: It depends ... (Achim)

I do not dispute that it is possible to play at Extra-terrestrial rating for a limited time. Heck, sometimes I will play at ET in a 5 or 11 point match. My belief is that it is impossible to average Extra-terrestrial over a significant amount of matches or games. What constitutes sufficient is debatable. After 20 games or 5 matches (5 to 11 point), extra-terrestrial play would be very suspicious. After 100 games or 20 matches, extra-terrestrial play would be cheating in my opinion.

Iancho Hristov recently released data that the best players in the world enjoy 3.x ratings.

Anyway, my post was mostly about my willingness to believe in other world ET's, while refusing to believe in Earthly backgammon ET's. Perhaps, this is a bit ironic.

Stanley

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