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Is gamesmanship always a bad thing?

Posted By: Chase
Date: Thursday, 4 March 2010, at 6:32 p.m.

In Response To: Is gamesmanship always a bad thing? (Rich Munitz)

I've never played in a major tournament, and I don't have a lot of experience with offline play, so I defer to those with experience on issues of rule interpretation, clock use, gamesmanship, and the like. My personality and personal preferences lean hard toward viewing backgammon as a "gentleman's" game, but it's not my world. I just play in it (to a limited extent). I hate the idea of clocks, for instance, but I accept them as a practical solution to what, apparently, is a larger problem than I would have imagined.

The poker/backgammon analogy is interesting to me because the games attract many of the same people and yet they have evolved with different social expectations and standards of behavior. I've wondered if these differences will start to blur -- whether we'll see players staring down their opponents, trying to pick up a tell, as they demand to know whether an offered cube would be accepted. Personally, I hope not, as it would diminish the game, in my opinion. Poker seems to be thriving in this atmosphere, however, so maybe "cutthroat" backgammon would be more popular.

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