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Sports -- OT--with BG addition that is On-T

Posted By: svilo
Date: Monday, 6 June 2011, at 8:38 a.m.

In Response To: Sports -- OT--with BG addition that is On-T (Stick)

As an example - weight lifting. Too litle room for creativity. The one who lifts more wins. But there are still possibilities to use rationally one's position, weight,exersise pressure and misguide opponents about one's own strategies...

Backgammon has lots of these, although not as much as poker.

Today's backgammon, as opposed to a century ago, is a COMPETITIVE SPORT where people compete people with various weapons and is not a mere family game.

Even if both players reach 1.0PR under present rules, very simple changes e.g. time controls, might bring back the competitive spirit and restrict the luck factor. If ER of both was 0 the luck factor would be 1. Only luck would decide.

Measuring ONLY the PR in a competition would resemble each jumper jumping 100 times and the title goes to the one with the best mean result. A competition is between people not a man with himself.

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