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What is Happening to Backgammon?

Posted By: Rich Munitz
Date: Tuesday, 30 November 2010, at 7:25 p.m.

In Response To: What is Happening to Backgammon? (Bill Calton)

I completely support Phil's thoughts for master points, lifetime points and all sorts of innovative point systems that reward attendance, reward achievement, allow people to set and attain goals and can never be taken away once earned. Such a system will encourage people to attend and to keep attending.

I also support Elo Ratings. While I think backgammon is a fabulous social game and can appreciate the "don't make backgammon into chess" argument, backgammon should be so lucky to be ruined and dying the way that the introduction of ratings ruined and killed chess. Backgammon in the US should be so lucky to be killed the way that the introduction of a national rating system killed backgammon in Denmark. It is my hope that ratings will encourage and excite young people who are likely to be motivated to learn, play, improve and excel. If on the back end we lose some old people who don't like to see their ratings drop over time, well so be it. Hopefully, master points will give them something to continue to aim for. But hopefully by the time people get older, they will continue to play anyway simply because they love the game. Backgammon will not grow because it feels it must not do anything to demotivate old people who's game is in decline. It will grow because it excites and motivates a hungry new generation.

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