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Gambling or Strategy?

Posted By: Matt Ryder
Date: Friday, 1 January 2010, at 5:31 p.m.

In Response To: Gambling or Strategy? (Timothy Chow)

Game-recording is a standard feature of most online money servers

What I meant was any kind of recording of the game that would slow things down would be anathema to the gambling mindset.

This characterization seems wrong to me. Most of the professional BG gamblers I've met are supremely patient. Like sharks suspended in the inky depths, they observe their prey dispassionately until the moment is right to lunge at their flailing extremities. The most successful pros can watch for hours, recording matches, analysing with bots, making notes, ranking and sorting the fish... They don't necessarily prioritize fast games, unless speed will cause their opponents to make mistakes (excessively slow play can have the same effect).

With much of its popularity lost to poker, backgammon is fighting for its life.

This is true, but again this is something that is more troubling to the person who's trying to make money than the person who is interested purely in strategy.

Possibly true, but that doesn't mean it isn't troubling. Unless playing other people is an impediment to the Platonic perfection of your strategic appreciation of the game :-)

Jokes aside, there are some people who enjoy analysing the game more than they do actually playing it. I have some sympathy for this tendency (and perhaps I have a streak of it myself), as the game is neither cruel nor unfair when contemplated from the armchair.

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