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Fun and frustration
The hard luck story contest came to an end a couple of months ago,
but it took me a while to get this posted.
So, here are the two finalists!
First the runner up, a mr Julian Hayward. He presented a simple race
that includes a few important ingredients in a hard luck story.
It was an important match (the match before the prisemoney in a
tournament), a nasty sequence and a slight error by the opponent.
I quote:
British Isles Backgammon Assoc. tournament, fourth round out of 6.
Appear to be cruising into semi-finals with this position:
Score: X (me) 9, O 2 --- to 11.
+24-23-22-21-20-19-+---+18-17-16-15-14-13-+
| O O O | | |
| O O | | |
| O | | |
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| X X | | |
+-1--2--3--4--5--6-+---+-7--8--9-10-11-12-+
X O
double take
21 redouble
take 66
21 43
I double, just to kill off any chance of a fluke.
O then went on to win the match. Now, O only gets a shot at his
flukey double if I roll 2-1 twice...
*Needless to say there was no semifinal for the contributor*
And we have a winner. Look at this beauty from Hugh McNeil in Canada:
+24-23-22-21-20-19-+---+18-17-16-15-14-13-+ 2
| X | | X |
| X | | X |
| X | | |
| X | | |
| X | X | |
| | X | |
| | X | |
| O | | X |
| O | | X |
| O O O | | X |
| O O O O X O | | X |
| O O O O X O | | X |
+-1--2--3--4--5--6-+---+-7--8--9-10-11-12-+
I quote:
X has the cube at 2.
X has 3 checkers on the bar.
Neither player has any checkers off.
O to roll (me).
O gets backgammoned.
Yes, that is right, double fives, etc, etc, redouble, take, etc
etc, backgammon.
<*sigh*>
So, BG-players, be prepared...
Einar Tryggvason
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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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