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Need help to get correct match score and cube pos on this one...

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Thursday, 10 February 2011, at 3:58 p.m.

In Response To: Need help to get correct match score and cube pos on this one... (Sam Pottle)

Sam wrote: I don't think that was the format in 1988. I believe the first couple of World Cups used a single match format (41 pts in the final?), and later ones used the best-of-5 11-pointers.

I think Sam's right, since I too remember that one or more World Cups had very long matches.

See http://www.backgammoninlondon.com/quizzes/033/033A.html

Chris Bray writes that Problem 1 is from the 1988 World Cup final, Joe Sylvester vs. Ray Glazer, with Sylvester trailing 15-23 in a match to 41.

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