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Backgammon Lessons

Posted By: Stick
Date: Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 4:52 a.m.

In Response To: Backgammon Lessons (Alexandre Le Siege)

I kind of feel like you're making my point for me but not quite there yet. If for the sake of this discussion you are using about a 4 PR as world class level in backgammon and saying in only a couple of years a person could play at this level but couldn't at other things such as golf, tennis, go, chess, etc... then I have to wonder if that's true or not and if backgammon is indeed an 'easy' game as you put it compared to the rest.

Normally you don't see a tennis player make it in 2 years because he's been playing all his life but if you take an athlete around age 17 and put him into it could he not reach a level in two years you'd deem world class? I don't know how much you know about tennis but refer here for what one might consider world class. Before I looked at their definition of 'world class' mine was slightly lower. I would have said a 6.0 tennis player is 'world class' and think it's fair in comparison to the easy WC rating of the bots.

You know a loooooooooot about chess, what do you consider world class in chess? (~2200?) How (im)possible is this to reach in only a couple years do you think?

You can go down the line with the other sports if you want.

Stick

Messages In This Thread

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  Stanley E. Richards -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 9:29 p.m.
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    Alexandre Le Siege -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 9:46 p.m.
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      Stanley E. Richards -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 10:34 p.m.
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    Rich Munitz -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 10:07 p.m.
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      Stanley E. Richards -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 10:30 p.m.
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        Rich Munitz -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 11:41 p.m.
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      Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 10:35 p.m.
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        Christian Munk-Christensen -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 2:58 a.m.
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      Jake Jacobs -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 11:24 p.m.
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      Stanley E. Richards -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 11:37 p.m.
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        Rich Munitz -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 7:22 a.m.
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    David Rockwell -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 10:58 p.m.
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      David Rockwell -- Wednesday, 19 January 2011, at 11:06 p.m.
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        Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 2:54 a.m.
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      Sebastiaan kuijs -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 11:02 p.m.
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    Alexandre Le Siege -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 12:04 a.m.
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      Christian Munk-Christensen -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 2:45 a.m.
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        Christian Munk-Christensen -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 3:02 a.m.
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      Stick -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 2:46 a.m.
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        Alexandre Le Siege -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 3:59 a.m.
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          Stick -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 4:05 a.m.
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            Alexandre Le Siege -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 4:33 a.m.
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              Stick -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 4:52 a.m.
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                Alexandre Le Siege -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 6:29 a.m.
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          David Rockwell -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 4:13 a.m.
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    Stick -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 12:33 a.m.
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      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 4:20 a.m.
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        Stick -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 4:25 a.m.
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          Rich Munitz -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 7:38 a.m.
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            Stick -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 10:38 a.m.
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      Stanley E. Richards -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 4:53 a.m.
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    Christian Munk-Christensen -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 2:42 a.m.
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      Stick -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 2:45 a.m.
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        Christian Munk-Christensen -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 2:55 a.m.
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          Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 9:00 a.m.
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        Alexandre Le Siege -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 3:53 a.m.
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        higonefive -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 6:45 p.m.
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    Phil Simborg -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 3:58 a.m.
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      Stanley E. Richards -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 4:58 a.m.
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      rew -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 3:20 p.m.
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    Bill Riles -- Thursday, 20 January 2011, at 4:51 a.m.