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If the universe goes on long enough..........
Posted By: Daniel Murphy In Response To: If the universe goes on long enough.......... (Nack Ballard)
Date: Thursday, 20 May 2010, at 4:22 p.m.
Never give up on the race just because you're in a backgame. :)
Never give up, indeed. With enough time, the unusual will happen. Four unusual games stick in my mind.
Once, having doubled, I bore off a few checkers, was hit twice and closed out. I won that game. While I was rolling my entering and racing numbers, my luck-obsessed opponent muttered without stop about my devil dice. As I bore off my last checkers, I pointed to the cube, which had never his side of the board.
Another time I was watching a game at a downtown New York backgammon dive. A hopeless game it was, with none off and three checkers on the bar as the opponent began his bearoff. No checkers were hit, but Mr. Three-on-the-bar won the race.
Once on FIBS, not on the roof, and not blocked from moving, I rolled nine doubles in a roll. Or maybe it was eight. Or eight in ten rolls. Or seven in nine .... Anyway, I wasn't favored to win the game until I had rolled the last of those doubles.
And once, at a midtown New York backgammon dive, a mind control practitioner was at double match point, on the bar against a bearoff board with the six remaining checkers on the two point. "Double two!," Mr. Mind Control cried, as he shook his dice. And 2-2 it was. An ace and anything would have been as good, but calling the double two was most impressive. His opponent removed two checkers. "Double two!" Mr. Mind Control cried again on his next turn, and sure enough he rolled 2-2. Now his opponent rolled an ace to leave the shot Mr. Mind Control had been waiting for. But he missed it and lost. I don't know much about how mind control works, but apparently it is more difficult to call for an ace-anything roll than double two.
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