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Rehashing "Luck"

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Thursday, 17 June 2010, at 8:32 a.m.

In Response To: Rehashing "Luck" (Ralph Byrns)

RE: "Title" This may not count at all with you folks, but I did not merely invent this title on my website. A group of Turks and Germans [calling themselves Institut fur Strategiespiele] ran an on-line tournament through the MSN Zone for about four years in the early 2000s that they called the World Internet Backgammon Championship. In August 2002, I won their tournament. As I clearly stated on my websoite, I started playing in 1997, and don't play nearly as well as this title suggests.

Description [also on my website]: This "world championship tournament" [the quote marks are on my web page] was an open single-elimination event, with 400 or so entrants from roughly thirty countries, many of whom had been at it for more than 25 years. But luck always plays a role in backgammon, and I did manage to win nine straight matches (13 to 27 points each), including three against world-class players rated in the top-100 or so. [I made the Final 16 when trying to defend my title in 2003, but alas ... .] Other interests have kept me from playing much in the last seven years or so, although I do play in "live" tournaments about once a year.

I have no reason to doubt that there really was a such a tournament, and that you won it. However, there is a very big difference between you having won "World On-Line Backgammon Championship" as indicated on http://www.unc.edu/depts/econ/byrns_web/Resume/Personal.htm and having been "the world champion backgammon player on the internet in 2002," as indicated on both http://www.unc.edu/depts/econ/profiles/byrns.htm and http://www.unc.edu/depts/econ/byrns_web/Resume/About.htm

The former just means you won a tournament with a particular title. The latter implies something else very different which I think is extremely misleading and basically false. I could accept that you very well may not have even written the latter, but if I were you, I'd want to set the record very much straight, and get that thing rewritten ASAP.

JLee

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