Luck is an essential part of backgammon. Everyone gets good luck and bad, but some players go to great lengths to tell you how unlucky they are and how lucky you are, whether it is with heavy sighs over the board, or "nr" comments online.
It's poor form to comment on how lucky your opponent is. Since the outcome is the net result of luck and skill, and the outcome is known after the game, complaints that you are remarkably unlucky are the same as tiresome and pointless assertions that you are outplaying your opponent. It's particularly annoying when a player complains about his luck en route to victory.
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Re: Grumbles |
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19 Feb 2008 12:48 EST
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I totally agree with your attitude toward complaining. For years it really bothered me when someone I beat told me how lucky I was. I took it as an insult...as a suggestion that I only won because of luck and not because I played better than he did. Then I decided to have fun with it.
At a recent tournament, after losing the match and my opponent told me that I was very lucky, I said, "Yes, I did get an excellent draw in this tournament." (I found out he realized I had insulted him about 2 hours later.)
Am I wront to insult someone who insults me? Maybe, but in my mind it is part of my responsibility to maintain a cosmic balance in the universe, and it does help me sleep better.
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22 Feb 2008 22:45 EST
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When a player complains after losing a match to me that he was very unlucky and that i was very lucky,i always feel sorry for them and quickly agree with them. This does them no favours. Whenever i lose to a player of any strength i always say that the better player won. I find that this practise helps bring a little humbleness into my game, and helps me keep my ego and my emotions in check, otherwise my ego and emotion can take control and create a negative impact on my game and at a time when i least need this to happen.
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