Re: Luck/skill in backgammon

In article <1150454234.072008.74640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, pauldepstein@xxxxxxx
says...
Furthermore, an important element in popularity is the complexity of
the rules (rule complexity seems to be negatively correlated with
popularity).


I'm not sure this holds at all. Look at Go - incredibly simple rules, but not exactly
sweeping the world. But maybe that's a marketing problem ;->


It seems to me that the poker rules for the standard forms of hold-em
have a very similar complexity level to the rules of backgammon. Thus
rule-complexity doesn't explain poker's greater popularity than
backgammon.

Backgammon's more like 5 card stud, in terms of complexity. imho.

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