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Of kamikaze plays and Polish primes -- for septugenarians only

Posted By: higonefive
Date: Saturday, 20 November 2010, at 5:10 p.m.

In Response To: Of kamikaze plays and Polish primes -- for septugenarians only (joe freedman)

I swear to god and even by the pope, a compatriot of mine, that i have read the term "polish prime" in the study of backgammon literature. I can't exactly say where. And i took this as a terminus technicus in backgammon lingo. Look at: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/138/backgammon/problem-week-83-november-8-a-912890/index2.html There, Bill Robertie answered on the question: What's a polish prime? like a pistol: A prime consisting of blots instead of points. So if an expert like Robertie handled it as a terminus technicus, i don't know this entire effort. And i wrote in this here Saturday, 13 November 2010, at 3:52 p.m. : "By the way, i think "Kamikaze play" is insulting the japanese people. The act of dying by own hand was in old japan honourful and labeled "seppuku". The felonious japanese regime, which worked also with Hitler, abused this honorful image to lure young men into an act of self murdering assasination. They also refered on history and labeled it "Kamikaze" (divine wind). This was the name of major typhoons in 1274 and 1281, which dispersed the Mongolian invasion fleets. In 2006, Tsuneo Watanabe, Editor-in-Chief of the Yomiuri Shimbun, criticized Japanese nationalists' glorification of kamikaze attacks: "It's all a lie that they left filled with braveness and joy, crying, 'Long live the emperor!' They were sheep at a slaughterhouse. Everybody was looking down and tottering. Some were unable to stand up and were carried and pushed into the plane by maintenance soldiers." So i think, if it is your opinion, that backgammon terms should not insult, we have to give up the term "Kamikaze play" also. I suggest similiar to Go the term "Ko-play". Just my opinion."

We are backgammon players. Isn't insulting just another word for chouette?! Ceep calm and carry on.

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