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Question about the 1973 Cooke/Dwek/Martyn match

Posted By: Marv Porten
Date: Monday, 4 April 2011, at 5:25 p.m.

In Response To: Question about the 1973 Cooke/Dwek/Martyn match (Timothy Chow)

In "What Colour is the Wind" (7/2003 edition) Chris Bray says:

"The games were played in separate rooms....The dice for both black and white were thrown by a neutral referee and each roll was communicated to both rooms. Once both rooms had completed their moves the referee would roll again. He would continue to roll until the games in both rooms were complete. Given the format a game could be over in one room in three moves whilst in the second room the game might go on for fifty moves. For this reason the format never became popular." (page 182)

Author's note, page 183: "After publication of the first edition of this book [What Colour is the Wind] Jake Jacobs told me that David Dor-El, author of "The Clermont Book of Backgammon", has the missing games [of the USA v UK duplicate match] but also has an inflated estimate of their worth."

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