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Backgammon/Schools/Gambling
Posted By: Strato In Response To: Backgammon/Schools/Gambling (Michael Petch)
Date: Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 8:53 p.m.
Hi Michael,
I meet new people every day, and I ask everyone I meet if they play backgammon. Besides those that say no, I very rarely find people that associate the game with money or gambling.
I hear, "great game", "I used to play it when I was younger", "I'd like to learn how to play it again" and so on.
The game is played by millions of families across the globe (seriously), and those millions have never heard of (or think of) playing it for money and have never heard that live backgammon tournaments exist.
I seem to remember back in the 60s you could buy a cardboard game of Checkers for very little (what? 39 or 49 cents) at Woolworths or Kresgee's stores in Canada, and for some reason there was another game with triangles printed on the back of the checkerboard which I later learnt was backgammon, but apparently there wasn't enough checkers nor dice to play backgammon on it, nor were rules for backgammon included. Funny though, eh, it seemed like every household had a pair of dice hanging around somewhere (where did those dice come from?).
Let everyone promote backgammon the way they best see fit, it can be done in many ways, and it's going to be done anyway, whether you or I think it is the right way or not. I really dislike it when people publicly crap on the game or a backgammon group, opinions are one thing, but many just do it out of envy because they have failed in their own endeavours - and I am not talking about you because I know your intentions are good.
Why don't you make a website called "Backgammon - A Family Game" and search-engine-optimize it to show people how much fun it can be for the family and how children can learn math from it (through odds and probabilities). I’d do it but there’s no money in it...
Michael
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