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Ten Things I Hate About the BG Experience

Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier
Date: Wednesday, 29 October 2008, at 9:04 p.m.

In Response To: Ten Things I Hate About the BG Experience (Keene)

My perspective. If I lose because I played poorly, I deserved it. If I lose because I mismanaged a match against an inferior opponent, I deserved it. If I lose to opponents luckboxing their way through a game / match, then I will get that back at some point in the future - the luck will even out. Still upsetting to lose, but I accept responsibility & blame for my actions.

I think this is ambiguous. How do you know if you lost because you played poorly or you lost because your opponent lucked out? Suppose you play at a 0.2 ER and your opponent plays at an 8 ER but you make one .03 error at DMP. Had you played correctly, given the next dice rolls, you would have won the match, but instead, you lose. Is it because you made an error or because your opponent got lucky?

Whatever the answer, just apply slippery slope reasoning until it stops being intuitive.

In my view, backgammon is a game of skill and chance and there's no way to carve out either one from the other. Of course, I hate losing as much as anyone else, but given that I'm going to lose a lot of my games anyway and there's nothing I can do about it, I might as well just accept it when it happens.

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