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Over eleven years ago this conversation happened in the eleventh game of a seventeen game match that I won 17 to 7. We have not played a game since

Walter Montego: (18. July 2013, 07:13:20) You say a lot about Backgammon, but I doubt if you're such an authority on the subject that I should pay much attention to your opinion on it. I will, however, keep in mind the things you say. If your skills can't beat such a poor player as myself, then how do you explain your meteoric rise in the rating chart these passed two months? And why play me? Are you a glutton for abuse?

I think you suffer from selective memory, as you are one of the luckiest players I play and yet you never notice how lucky you are. At least I know I'm lucky. I went up amazingly fast two weeks ago, peaking at 2410 just five days ago, and now I have lost every match in five days, though for some reason I am still leading against you in this one. Just because I make plays that are not the recommended or typical plays does not mean that I have not analyzed my options and made thoughtful consideration of the alternatives. This is especially so in how I approach the double cube offers from opponents. And speaking of that, you accepted a double offer I made in a previous game in this match. Now there's a telling indication of your Backgammon skills!

Yes, you continue to hold to your belief that I am lucky. You just can't accept the fact that some people are better players than yourself and the only possible reason that you lose to them is that they must be lucky. We've played 54 matches. I do not know how many games we have played. But if matches are an indication of skill over the long term, it would seem that the 28 to 26 score of the matches says we're fairly even in skills regardless of our technique. We both have a different style to Backgammon. Has it occurred to you that your style might not work as well against mine? If you were as great of a player as you seem to think you are, you would make adjustments in your play to take this into account when you play me. I say this on the assumption that there is enough skill in Backgammon for such adjustments to be made and that both of us are skilled enough to take advantage of such adjustments. I have beat Sergey82 decisively. He obviously did not change his playing style, but LikeWowMan2Cool and HappyJuggler0 know how to beat me. Why don't you learn from them and bring it back here when you're ready to demonstrate just how good you really are?

The Unfathomable Abyss: (18. July 2013, 04:31:39) you are to lucky. as i always said. you are not that good, you are just lucky