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Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?

Posted By: Rod
Date: Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 2:07 a.m.

In Response To: Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular? (Klaus Evers)

Backgammon's popularity of a few decades ago has been supplanted by other activities and sports. I don't expect that it will ever regain that level of popularity. It was a "craze" then, destined to sputter out from that peak.

However, promoted *properly* it can regain a fair amount of that popularity. In addition to that, the article itself brings to mind just one of those methods - spoon-fed.

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• Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
  Klaus Evers -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 6:20 a.m.
  • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
    poseidon -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 10:09 a.m.
    • Response to Poseidon
      Chiva Tafazzoli -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 11:35 a.m.
      • Response to Poseidon
        poseidon -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 12:10 p.m.
        • Response to Poseidon
          Sebastiaan Kuijs -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 4:46 p.m.
          • Response to Poseidon
            mikeg -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 3:30 a.m.
            • Response to Poseidon
              Leonardo Jerkovic -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 4:46 p.m.
              • Response to Poseidon
                Stanley E. Richards -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 5:28 p.m.
                • Response to Poseidon
                  Leonardo Jerkovic -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 5:55 p.m.
                  • +1 *NM*
                    Chiva Tafazzoli -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 10:15 p.m.
                • Response to Poseidon
                  mtuhtan -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 5:57 p.m.
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                    Chiva Tafazzoli -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 10:21 p.m.
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                      mtuhtan -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 10:54 p.m.
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                        Leonardo Jerkovic -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 10:17 a.m.
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                      Sam Pottle -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 6:06 a.m.
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                        Stick -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 7:39 a.m.
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                          Christian Munk-Christensen -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 10:21 a.m.
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                          Sam Pottle -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 11:22 a.m.
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                            Stick -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 11:24 a.m.
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                              Christian Munk-Christensen -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 12:07 p.m.
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                                Stick -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 12:11 p.m.
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                        mtuhtan -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 4:01 p.m.
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                      mikeg -- Tuesday, 21 December 2010, at 2:16 a.m.
              • Response to Poseidon
                rew -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 4:29 p.m.
    • Backgammon popularity
      Ken Larsen -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 12:46 p.m.
    • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular? - Answer is "TV"
      jdg -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 3:06 p.m.
      • TV suggestion
        happyjuggler0 -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 3:33 p.m.
      • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular? - Answer is "TV"
        Leonardo Jerkovic -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 5:50 p.m.
        • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular? - Answer is "TV"
          Chiva Tafazzoli -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 7:25 p.m.
      • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular? - Answer is "TV"
        Stick -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 6:57 p.m.
        • Freakonomics: Why Isn�t Backgammon More Popular? - Answer is "TV"
          jdg -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 8:42 p.m.
          • Freakonomics: Why Isn�t Backgammon More Popular? - Answer is "TV"
            Stick -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 8:46 p.m.
            • Freakonomics: Why Isn�t Backgammon More Popular? - Answer is "TV"
              jdg -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 3:33 p.m.
      • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular? - Answer is "TV"
        Stanley E. Richards -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 7:10 a.m.
        • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular? - Answer is "TV"
          Stick -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 7:03 p.m.
          • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular? - Answer is "TV"
            Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 7:50 p.m.
          • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular? - Answer is "TV"
            ah_clem -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 8:03 p.m.
          • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular? - Answer is "TV"
            neilkaz -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 8:18 p.m.
    • Does the casual player believe backgammon is "solved"?
      Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 4:01 p.m.
      • Does the casual player believe backgammon is "solved"?
        Steve Mellen -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 5:49 p.m.
        • Does the casual player believe backgammon is "solved"?
          poseidon -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 6:15 p.m.
    • the solution of backgammon
      Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 4:31 p.m.
      • the solution of backgammon
        higonefive -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 7:00 a.m.
        • Snowie vs XG in backgames
          Timothy Chow -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 2:59 p.m.
          • Snowie vs XG in backgames
            higonefive -- Monday, 20 December 2010, at 1:39 p.m.
            • Snowie vs XG in backgames
              Daniel Murphy -- Monday, 20 December 2010, at 3:06 p.m.
              • Snowie vs XG in backgames
                higonefive -- Monday, 20 December 2010, at 7:30 p.m.
                • Snowie vs XG in backgames
                  Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 21 December 2010, at 12:11 a.m.
      • the solution of backgammon
        Rich Munitz -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 2:36 p.m.
      • the solution of backgammon
        Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 3:55 p.m.
        • the solution of backgammon
          Chuck Bower -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 6:28 p.m.
  • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
    Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 8:28 p.m.
    • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
      Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 15 December 2010, at 9:36 p.m.
  • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
    Rod -- Thursday, 16 December 2010, at 2:07 a.m.
    • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
      Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 11:33 a.m.
      • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
        Rod -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 2:02 p.m.
        • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
          Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 3:26 p.m.
          • Things to do
            Rod -- Friday, 17 December 2010, at 4:16 p.m.
  • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
    Martaille Jean-Francois -- Saturday, 18 December 2010, at 6:48 p.m.
    • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
      Bob Koca -- Saturday, 18 December 2010, at 7:45 p.m.
    • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
      Chuck Bower -- Saturday, 18 December 2010, at 10:15 p.m.
      • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
        Martaille Jean-Francois -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 9:57 a.m.
        • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
          Leonardo Jerkovic -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 11:58 a.m.
        • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
          Leonardo Jerkovic -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 12:04 p.m.
        • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
          Chuck Bower -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 4:16 p.m.
          • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
            Leonardo Jerkovic -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 7:29 p.m.
          • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
            Rich Munitz -- Monday, 20 December 2010, at 6:37 a.m.
            • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
              Chuck Bower -- Monday, 20 December 2010, at 7:05 p.m.
              • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
                Leonardo Jerkovic -- Tuesday, 21 December 2010, at 2:35 a.m.
                • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
                  Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 21 December 2010, at 3:18 a.m.
                  • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
                    Henrik Bukkjaer -- Tuesday, 21 December 2010, at 12:05 p.m.
                    • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
                      Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 21 December 2010, at 4:52 p.m.
                      • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
                        Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 21 December 2010, at 5:38 p.m.
              • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
                Henrik Bukkjaer -- Tuesday, 21 December 2010, at 12:21 p.m.
                • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
                  Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 21 December 2010, at 5:16 p.m.
    • Freakonomics: Why Isn’t Backgammon More Popular?
      Daniel Murphy -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 12:58 p.m.