Czuch Czuckers: What do you think about autopass? :)

Andersp: I thought that auto pass was moved up to a priority status? Maybe now that the "10 new games" January priority is finally finished, auto pass will be soon?

Czuch Czuckers: Hmmm most people play to become better at the game. Is it that you are not learning from your mistakes... LOL

skipinnz: Yeah, I guess my strategy for being way ahead is a loser! I will have to try going way behind, then hoping for my opponent to get very unlucky doubles and then getting the exact roll I need to take advantage of it! That must be why I cant break the 2200 barrier!

Czuch Czuckers: Some recommendations from one who has been there and back:

1. Try to be more aware of your good fortune than you are of your bad.

2. Accept that good and bad dice are the yin and yang of backgammon, and so it is impossible to have one without the other.

3. Appreciate the game's unpredictability: isn't that why we play backgammon rather than chess?

4. Admire your opponent's success as if it were your own. It is.

Namaste!

alanback: Thanks, I will try to remember that!

Czuch Czuckers: Remember this one?

Backgammon (pgt vs. Czuch Czuckers)

pgt: Obviously you did!! hahah That makes a great point, we only remember our bad beats, and not the other way around!
Thanks for the reminder!

Czuch Czuckers: No! I remembered it because I WON it!

pgt: ***** You just prove my point about unlucky dice even more!!! :) hahah

alanback: I like a quote that heard from a famous poker player.... "I guess if it wasnt for luck, I would win all of these!"

Czuch Czuckers: Czuch, here's my two cents. I think you have to congratulate your opponent on this one. I have won many games playing this way. She set up a great home board, left two men back and played the odds. Dice being dice you can count on getting behind in about 50% of your games.

This said, I don't know why you resigned it. You had a least as good a chance as getting back on the board and off again before your opponent could finish as she had of rolling the lucky roll earlier. I would have played it out.

jryden: Thanks... I didnt resign it though, unless I did it on accident?

I know it can and will happen in backgammon. It has just been my luck lately, and I like to whine!

But one thing.... I think it is different in a cubed match.... when you are up 4 to 2 , why would you risk getting sacked for 2 points when you dont have to risk it? Any way you look at it, it takes a lot of luck to get your home set up right, first, then have your opponent leave one open to hit, then on top of all that they have to hit the roll!!! I think it is too much luck to risk when you are up 4 to 2 in a 5 point match!

Not to mention that she could have run a long time ago and been guaranteed of only losing one point, and it ends up that she may lose it anyway, even after all of the luck she had! I think I am more inclined to take the one point loss. than risk being gammoned (which could have easily happened!) Unless maybe, your opponent is so good that you dont like yourself even in a 4 to 3 match to 5!

Czuch Czuckers: If you are up 4-2, there is no difference between losing 1 or 2 points: The next frame is for the match anyway, since you would double immediately next frame.

grenv: ahhh, no more crawford rule then? That makes more sense to me now then. What about the possibility of a double gammon?