Backgammon: The Sean and Zoe Ladder

a.k.a. The Super Series

We have missed out on a couple of backgammon tournaments this week. We wimped out of the regular Tuesday evening session as we were both feeling tired.

Also last Sunday was a larger all day tournament, which is hopefully going to run monthly. We had to decline this initially as we were invited to Kim's in the evening, however we were going to go along during the day, play a bit and maybe have some lunch. However, after our flat finding mission on Saturday we had too many things that needed to be sorted out (forms to fill in etc.) to be able to make it down. There's always next Sunday...

In the meantime we are occupying ourselves with the Sean and Zoe Ladder. As you may be able to tell from the name it is a ladder between just the two of us! It is going to run to the end of the year when, I expect, I will be pleased to reset the counter to 0! I think in part this is a way for Sean to prove that he's better than me and that I just get lucky in tournaments (and quizzes).

We are using a kind of Fibs hacky score (it's not so complicated for only two players) of the square root (rounded up) of the match length. This gives extra weight to match wins over match length.

I am sorry to say that I did not get off to a good start. Until last night I was 8-0 down. Last night I won a quick 3 pointer (it was very quick: double and then gammon) - hooray! - but then Sean won one too. So the score currently stands at 10-2 to Sean.

If anyone has any quick tips that can improve my matchplay without too much effort, email them to me! I need a secret weapon to use against the fact that Sean spends hours studying!

I will keep you all updated on how the ladder progresses.