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Take up a last century project
Posted By: Rich Munitz In Response To: Take up a last century project (svilo)
Date: Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 3:36 p.m.
Develop software that will take a video feed of a match and reliably convert it into a match transcript and you'll have a line of people to buy it and embrace it. Even if people need to use special high contrast dice, I imagine that would not be a deal breaker. If backgammon is to ever get onto television, the dice visibility problem has to be solved anyway, so people will have to adapt.
Clocks may have had some resistance and continues to, but they solve a real problem that is important to solve and unacceptable to many not to solve. There are enough players and directors screaming for clock usage.
This concept, however will never gain acceptance quite simply because there is no real problem with doing nothing (keeping things as they are), and there is nobody screaming for such a solution - only someone trying to convince people that it is something they need. Jakob Garal has developed a special board and keypads that generates/captures the dice and the checker plays and spits out a real-time match record. Yet where has that gone? People find it interesting but just don't like the playing experience and so it has gone nowhere. And believe me - nobody has tried to sell their concept harder than Jakob.
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