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Backgammon Development Thoughts

Posted By: phil simborg
Date: Thursday, 16 September 2010, at 2:45 a.m.

In Response To: Backgammon Development Thoughts (Bill Riles)

These are excellent thoughts that, along with many others, have been kicked around by the USBGF Education Committee. Joe Russell is chairman and I suggest anyone interested contact him and volunteer to get involved.

The best thing people can do is to take action. All of us live near high schools and colleges and can contact people at those schools who might be willing to "sponsor" a backgammon club, especially if we volunteer to help run it, teach backgammon, get them low cost or free backgammon boards, etc.

Certainly when there are enough clubs there is the potential for national and regional competition, and we even have possible funding and grants to help cover potential scholarships and expenses and prizes for kids some day. Once there is a formal program in place, many of us are willing to donate funds to the cause. But right now, we need people to take action.

The USBGF is just now getting organized, but we do have the blueprint for college classes, like the one we now have at GSU (44 students, and backgammon is a required course for all incoming freshmen in the school of accounting). We can also help offer advice in starting clubs, and I have even designed a flyer that can be customized for anyone to put up in Student Unions or elsewhere on campus announcing the formation of a backgammon club.

The USBGF can supply full-sized, $80 value backgammon boards for only $25 plus shipping, and we have smaller, free boards (limited supply) as well.

We ALL see the benefits of promoting the game to students, but we also have to show the students, the teachers, and the parents the benefits of playing backgammon, and we need to make it easy for them to get these clubs and classes going.

Put simply, the ideas are in place, but we need warm bodies to take action, locally, wherever you live. Pick out a school nearby, make phone calls and contact the chess club or the activity center or people in the math or accounting departments and get your foot in the door and start a club. The USBGF Education Committee will help you, but you need to supply the local effort.

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