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Apologies to Clock Aficionados

Posted By: Sam Pottle
Date: Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 5:02 a.m.

In Response To: Apologies to Clock Aficionados (Jason Lee)

This is the argument I hate.

I don't think the argument you hate is the one I actually made.

I apologize for being unclear. Let me try again: because clocks are not a perfect solution, there are be aspects of both clocked and unclocked backgammon that reasonable people may find repulsive. Having those feelings about both (a) time scrambles and (b) unreasonably long matches does not constitute trying to "have it both ways".

All this stuff:

I never once claimed that clocks are the perfect solution. Time scrambles are no fun, and don't lead to good backgammon, but long drawn out matches are no good either. What I'm saying is that Howard, or whomever, better pick their poison if they find both things repulsive. If he, and any other TD, persists in refusing to aggressively clock their tournaments, then they are going to be saddled with slow matches that hold up the brackets. I'm not saying that clocks are going to cure that -- I'm saying that a lack of clocks is SURE to bring about delays.

...I agree with. All of it. I believe that clocks are the future of tournament backgammon.

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