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O, on roll, wants to resign.
Almost 35 years ago, I was X here in a weekly club tourney and when O
conceded no gammon, and me, being a young brat, was bothered that he didn't
realize that he still could be gammoned so I abruptly said, "Roll, I am
going to gammon you."
Well, he rolled 4-4 and so did I. And when he tossed his second set of 4's
he looked rather concerned. I rolled and one die stopped on 2 and the
other being old small plastic dice with rounded corners spun and spun and
finally stopped on a 2.
I scooped up my 4 checkers and reached out my hand to say "Good match" and
my opponent was already gone! He went out the back door of that place
amazingly quickly and I never saw him again so hopefully he didn't quit
backgammon.
The fun thing about this is that my decision actually cost me theoretical
equity since I am clearly more likely to lose this game than win the freak
gammon.
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Fun and frustration
- A game brings you money (Michael J. Zehr, Feb 1996)
- A story from my youth (neilkaz, Aug 2008)
- Backgammon at 50 (Mary Hickey, July 2005)
- Backgammon by mail (MelRae, Aug 1997)
- Backgammon haikus (Phil Simborg, July 2004)
- Backgammon hustler (Socks, Apr 2004)
- Backgammon laws (Walt Swan, Dec 1999)
- Beginner's luck (Paul Tanenbaum, May 1999)
- Characters we all know (Alan Webb, Feb 1999)
- Choking under pressure (Kevin Bastian, Dec 1997)
- Danish Championship semifinal match (Daniel Murphy+, Nov 2004)
- Don't come looking for sympathy ... (Ian Shaw, Nov 2004)
- "Good roll!" (jfk+, Jan 1998)
- Hard luck story contest (Einar Tryggvason, Apr 1996)
- "I resign" (neilkaz, June 2011)
- Lonely checker's lament (Luvrhino+, Aug 2001)
- Losing streaks (Stanley E. Richards+, June 2006)
- Losing streaks (Leo Bueno+, Nov 1999)
- Losing streaks (Jim Peplow, July 1998)
- New Year's resolutions (Alan Webb, Jan 2000)
- One-liners (scuba, Jan 2007)
- Simborg's laws of backgammon (NYCGuy, June 1997)
- Some learning humor (Daniel Murphy, Aug 2011)
- Ten commandments of backgammon (Morten Wang, Nov 1997)
- The square thing (David B. Sandler, June 1996)
- Translation fun (James Eibisch, Feb 1998)
- What are the chances? (Pete+, Mar 2003)
- Wishing good luck (Michel Tarragnat, Apr 2005)
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