and friends usually for nothing more than cookies or tea. Like all backgammon
players, I always thought I was pretty good at it but never knew just how good.
Sometime in the 80's, I played in a Sunday-tournament in Southern California.
After I won the first three weeks in a row, they had amended the rules to make
winners sit out a week but I hadn't made much out of it at the time.
About two years ago I found a computer backgammon program called Jellyfish
which I thought was cheating, although I was able to beat it. When I expressed
that openly in rec.games.backgammon, things really got exciting (where I later
became a familiar name as I instigated/participated in endless heated debates).
During that same period, I started playing backgammon on-line against people
from all around the world, on a server called FIBS. Although I had never used a
doubling-cube before, in just a few months I reached a rating that could put me
among the top 3-4% in the world. Since then, I have been often tempted to try
my "luck" in tournaments and even in playing for money against Jellyfish but I
never did, fearing that I may crumble under the anxiety of gambling and not do
as well. Who knows, maybe someday...
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