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Denmark v. World Final Match

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 5:39 p.m.

In Response To: Denmark v. World Final Match (Matt Cohn-Geier)

I find it hard to believe they played so poorly. I think it is safe to say that watching the top players in the world play is not a lot different from watching two bots play. If that is the case, doesn't it suggest that maybe it is time for some changes to be made (at the highest levels only) to make the game more challenging and interesting and to require more "creativity."

Maybe Nackgammon is the answer, or the Simborg Rule (not allowed to make a point or run on the opening move), or maybe "duplicate backgammon" in some form where each player starts out in a very complicated or deep back game or holding game, and then you play the next game from the same position with the board turned around?

The same kind of thing happened years ago in the sport of racquetball. The top players had virtually perfected their hard, low, drive serve to the point where most of the time they either won the point on the serve or on the very next shot after a weak return. So we changed the rules...we made the players start farther away from the wall to make it easier for the opponent to see the serve coming, and we gave the server only one serve so that he couldn't take two shots at the killer serve. The game instantly became more interesting.

Baseball put in the DH--football moved the kickoff back so that not every kickoff went through the end zone. At the highest levels, games and sports need to keep it interesting, fun and challenging, and the Nordic Open proves to me that the top players are all pretty much interchangeable and the outcome is much more likely to be determined by luck when the skill differences are always going to be under 1.0 PR. How frigging boring!

Again, I am NOT talking about changing the game for the rest of us, or even for the Open Division...but maybe the Masters and any Giant events.

Messages In This Thread

• Denmark v. World Final Match
  Stick -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 4:08 a.m.
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    lenny -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 5:13 a.m.
  • Denmark v. World Final Match
    christian munk-christensen -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 6:10 a.m.
    • Denmark v. World Final Match
      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 6:15 a.m.
      • Denmark v. World Final Match
        Phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 5:39 p.m.
        • Denmark v. World Final Match
          Bill Riles -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 5:48 p.m.
          • Denmark v. World Final Match
            Sebastiaan kuijs -- Friday, 29 April 2011, at 7:44 a.m.
        • Denmark v. World Final Match
          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 5:54 p.m.
        • Denmark v. World Final Match
          Casper van der Tak -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 6:45 p.m.
          • Denmark v. World Final Match
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 7:00 p.m.
            • Denmark v. World Final Match
              Casper van der Tak -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 7:53 p.m.
              • Denmark v. World Final Match
                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 27 April 2011, at 12:54 a.m.
                • Denmark v. World Final Match
                  Casper van der Tak -- Wednesday, 27 April 2011, at 8:57 a.m.
        • Denmark v. World Final Match
          Stick -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 6:58 p.m.
        • Denmark v. World Final Match
          Perry Gartner -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 7:44 p.m.
          • Denmark v. World Final Match
            Bill Riles -- Wednesday, 27 April 2011, at 2:08 a.m.
            • Denmark v. World Final Match
              Phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 27 April 2011, at 3:08 a.m.
              • Denmark v. World Final Match
                Bill Riles -- Wednesday, 27 April 2011, at 3:21 a.m.
                • Denmark v. World Final Match
                  Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 27 April 2011, at 5:50 p.m.
              • Denmark v. World Final Match
                Robert Wachtel -- Wednesday, 27 April 2011, at 10:26 p.m.
            • Denmark v. World Final Match
              Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 27 April 2011, at 5:45 p.m.
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            neilkaz -- Wednesday, 27 April 2011, at 10:28 p.m.
            • Some ideas
              Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 1:31 a.m.
            • Some ideas
              Bob Koca -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 4:57 a.m.
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            Bob Koca -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 5:14 a.m.
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              Stick -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 5:20 a.m.
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                Bob Koca -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 5:57 a.m.
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                  Neil Robins -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 7:05 a.m.
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    Mochy -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 12:36 p.m.
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      Perry Gartner -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 4:38 p.m.
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      Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 4:50 p.m.
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      Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 5:00 p.m.
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