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Backgammon vs. Chess (#5)Backgammon is broken, grumbles the blogger who uses the nickname MFChang who returned playing backgammon after more than 20 years of absence. Backgammon is a weak and unfair game, is the summation of her (?) impression; it has limited strategies and the doubles rule (allowing you to play the numbers rolled twice) "really provides an unfair advantage beyond skill."
(Once again, the likeness of backgammon to life raises its predictable head; you could be as talented as you think you are, but everyone with far less skills and much better dice rolls can bypass you and go home with the grand prize, whatever it is.)
Chess is not perfect either; though less easy than backgammon and offering vast variant of strategies to keep one's fascinated, chess forces you to pay constant attention to your opponent's moves and schemes and respond accordingly, instead of just play the game, or in MFChang words, to react rather than to act. While in backgammon, if your opponent is not as skillful as you are, you can ignore him (or her) completely.
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