beginners question
Al
What is 'clockwise'?
And why Snowie and JellyFish start playing in different directions of
play? What direction is usually used in tournaments?
thanks.
Ric Gerace
home board.
You can alter the direction of play in Snowie and Jellyfish, in their menus.
Practice playing both ways until it doesn't matter to you. Then you never
have to argue with anyone about which way to play, you'll see the board
better, and you'll sometimes gain a bit of a psychological edge over someone
who can only play one way.
Ric
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Hank Youngerman
sets up the checkers is usually the way it is played.
In theory, everything - which direction to play, whose board to use,
which seat to have - is subject to a dice roll if the players
disagree.
Most experienced tournament players don't care and will let an
opponent who has a preference choose the direction.
Then again.... this is bridge story, not backgammon - but in 1991 in
the national open teams, my team (none of whom had ever finished in
the top 25 in a national championship) drew a team in the qualifying,
all of whom were many-time national champions. As we were conferring
about which of our pairs wanted to play which of their pairs, one of
their team approached us and basically said that we had to roll for
seating rights, saying "If playing one way is an advantage to you,
maybe the other way is an advantage to us." We beat them in that
match, although they went on to win the event. But it seemed like
overkill to me.
Vince Mounts
counterclockwise so neither is "standard" as both always occur on a
real board.
On 12 Aug 2001 12:56:24 -0700, ab...@mail.ru (Al) wrote:
Mark Driver
armies clash head on. As you have noticed, the initial set of the pieces can
be altered in a mirror image. In both Snowie and Jellyfish the perspectives
of play can be changed in the respective 'view' menus etc.
Traditionally players would play 'towards the light' - a term which can be
intrepreted on many levels.
At the most basic level of meaning - the players would agree to the 'light
source' of the room (either a window or an artificial light source such as a
lamp), the bear off quadrant for both players would be set so that it was
closest to the light source. The players would then throw the dice to decide
which side of the table to sit at, or which colour of checkers to play.
At deeper levels of intrepretation there is some evidence to suggest
religious or mystical attributes of the phrase 'towards the light' ( a long
story for another day perhaps).
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David C. Ullrich
Um, there's no such thing as "the direction usually used".
If one player is playing clockwise the other player
is playing counter-clockwise.
(Years ago I knew this person who could only play
in one direction. Took a while to convince her that
it wasn't hard to learn to go both ways - if
_everyone_ was either a clockwise player or a
counter-clockwise player then a given backgammon
player could never play half the other backgammon
players in the world...)
>thanks.
David C. Ullrich
Daniel Murphy
>Hi!
>
>What is 'clockwise'?
Clockwise: in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock.
>And why Snowie and JellyFish start playing in different directions of
>play? What direction is usually used in tournaments?
Look again -- if one player is playing clockwise, then the other
player is playing counterclockwise. Both Snowie and JellyFish can be
set to play in either direction.
Daniel Murphy
Raccoon on FIBS/GamesGrid
4th Humlebæk Open, September 29-30, 2001 www.hbgk.dk
Gregg Cattanach
counter-clockwise. If the home boards are on your right (you are playing
counter-clockwise), there generally is a lot more checkers on the side where
you must roll your dice. This can be a bit irritating at your dice will be
cocked more often rolling in that zone. But this is a minor factor, and I
agree completely that you should be completely comfortable going in both
directions.
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Gregg Cattanach
Zox at GamesGrid, Zone
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