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Chouette Ethics: Singling out weaker players
Posted By: ChanningW In Response To: Ethics (Taper_Mike)
Date: Monday, 6 April 2015, at 7:56 p.m.
To illustrate your point, 15 years ago, I was once walking by a cafe where a group of people were playing their weekly chouette for $5 per pt. I went in and chatted with some of the players and decided I would return the next week to play.
I'd never played in chouette before, nor had I ever been around a group of serious backgammon players so I was a little nervous and I tried to keep my head down while I figured out what was going on. It did not work. The player in the box had some sort of tough take position that he decided to pass for everyone in the chouette but me. So, I'm nervous and on the spot and everyone is watching me butcher a bear off that (even then) I wouldn't have thought twice about playing online.
The worst part of all was that I got away with it. The guy threw a little fit over his $5 bad beat as a way to validate his brilliant strategy of isolating the weakest player. It was not pleasant. I did keep playing in the chouette a few more times. Most of the players were very nice and in the following weeks, the chouette was fun. But the takeaway is that I had to make myself go back the next week, and honestly, out of all the real board BG I've played over the years, It's the OTB experience that sticks in my mind more than any other. A person who was a grain less into backgammon would have never gone back.
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