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Kharkov Open - new tournament format?

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Saturday, 2 October 2010, at 12:50 a.m.

In Response To: Kharkov Open - new tournament format? (mtuhtan)

Some kind of event must have taken place, because there's some video at ustream.tv. But there are no results at the Kharkiv (Ukrainian for Kharkov) Open website.

I did look over the three different sets of rules proposed for the the planned seven flights of amateur, master and grandmaster events. I also reread some of Garal's papers describing his "fair backgammon" proposal. I reviewed the proposal in depth a few years ago. My review, posted in a gammonlife.com forum, was negative. "Fair backgammon" as planned for the Khirkiv Open was, in my view, even worse. Backgammon doesn't need "new ideas." It needs good ideas. Garal is wrong about what's "unfair" in backgammon, and his fixes make it worse. "Fair backgammon" is not better, is not more enticing, is not more challenging, and is not more "fair."

But anyone who thinks that

• money game play of X games is "fairer" than a match played to X points
• match play to X points is "fairer" without a doubling cube
• match play to X points is "fairer" without the Crawford rule
• assigning players "chips" to win and lose and affect their doubling decisions is "fairer"
• doubling the value of games at arbitrary points is "fairer"
• using a complicated scoring system makes backgammon "fairer"
• addining additional qualifying steps to a Swiss qualification plus Cup system is "fairer"
• dividing prize pools by complicated formulas is "fairer" and
• tournaments are improved by having multiple and complicated rules sets for different flights

might disagree.

Messages In This Thread

• Kharkov Open - new tournament format?
  mtuhtan -- Friday, 1 October 2010, at 11:29 a.m.
  • Kharkov Open - new tournament format?
    Bob Koca -- Friday, 1 October 2010, at 3:50 p.m.
    • Kharkov Open - new tournament format?
      mtuhtan -- Friday, 1 October 2010, at 4:02 p.m.
      • Kharkov Open - new tournament format?
        Leonardo Jerkovic -- Friday, 1 October 2010, at 4:50 p.m.
  • Kharkov Open - new tournament format?
    Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 2 October 2010, at 12:50 a.m.
  • Kharkov Open - new tournament format?
    Jason Lee -- Saturday, 2 October 2010, at 12:58 a.m.
  • Kharkov Open - results
    Daniel Murphy -- Sunday, 3 October 2010, at 3:58 a.m.
    • Kharkov Open - format in fact
      aoleg1 -- Sunday, 3 October 2010, at 6:15 a.m.