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Why use clocks? The other side of the argument

Posted By: neilkaz
Date: Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 4:00 p.m.

In Response To: Why use clocks? The other side of the argument (Henrik Bukkjaer)

Henrik "I agreed completely with Stick in this thread but I think people are missing the first and foremost reason why so many players oppose clocks: They want backgammon to be different from chess, they hate chess and bridge and the typical players of these games, and want backgammon to be like in the good old days = "Not chess". It should be noisy players taunting each other, in smokey rooms, with money on the side, not the steril form of backgammon that they consider some modern tournaments to be."

This is a valid observation, I'd say. As for me, I was a tourney chess player before I was a tourney BG player so clocks were natural. As for bridge, there aren't clocks but players certainly aren't taunting each other. I do play bridge, but decided against trying high level play for now, since it is SO SLOW at the W/C level. I expect to play more bridge once I retire from working in a few years, but for now, it is too difficult for me to play W/C BG and attempt to learn W/C bridge.

.. neilkaz ..

Messages In This Thread

• Why use clocks?
  Stick -- Tuesday, 18 January 2011, at 5:58 a.m.
  • Why use clocks?
    Bill Riles -- Tuesday, 18 January 2011, at 2:21 p.m.
    • Why use clocks?
      adrianov -- Tuesday, 18 January 2011, at 11:00 p.m.
      • Why use clocks?
        mtuhtan -- Tuesday, 18 January 2011, at 11:18 p.m.
  • Why use clocks?
    Stanley E. Richards -- Tuesday, 18 January 2011, at 4:09 p.m.
    • Why use clocks?
      Bill Riles -- Tuesday, 18 January 2011, at 4:26 p.m.
    • Why use clocks?
      Havard Raddum -- Tuesday, 18 January 2011, at 8:57 p.m.
      • Why use clocks?
        Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 18 January 2011, at 9:46 p.m.
        • Why use clocks?
          adambulldog -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 4:50 a.m.
      • Why use clocks?
        Bill Riles -- Tuesday, 18 January 2011, at 9:53 p.m.
        • Why use clocks?
          Stanley E. Richards -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 6:00 a.m.
          • Why use clocks?
            Bill Riles -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 3:15 p.m.
  • Why use clocks? The other side of the argument
    Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 1:25 a.m.
    • Valid Argument Against Clocks
      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 7:48 a.m.
    • Why use clocks? The other side of the argument
      Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 12:36 p.m.
      • Why use clocks? The other side of the argument
        neilkaz -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 4:00 p.m.
        • Why use clocks? The other side of the argument
          Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 11:39 p.m.
          • Why use clocks? The other side of the argument
            dlevy -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 4:52 a.m.
            • Why use clocks? The other side of the argument
              Henrik Bukkjaer -- Monday, 24 January 2011, at 1:49 p.m.
      • Why use clocks? The other side of the argument
        Rich Munitz -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 9:02 p.m.
        • Why use clocks? The other side of the argument
          Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 10:33 p.m.
  • Why use clocks?
    Sebastiaan Kuijs -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 11:06 a.m.
  • Why use clocks? I'll give you reasons not to!
    Phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 4:37 p.m.
    • Why use clocks? I'll give you reasons not to!
      Bob Koca -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 6:12 p.m.
      • Why use clocks? I'll give you reasons not to!
        Rich Munitz -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 7:38 p.m.
    • Why use clocks? I'll give you reasons not to!
      mtuhtan -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 6:29 p.m.
    • I never learned to tell time *NM*
      Michael Petch -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 10:08 p.m.
  • Why use clocks?
    Julia Hayward -- Friday, 21 January 2011, at 9:52 a.m.