• Forget chess, backgammon teaches the most valuable life lessons: blind luck and wild unfairness | Joel Snape

    Forget chess, backgammon teaches the most valuable life lessons: blind luck and wild unfairness | Joel Snape
    Rishi Sunak hopes to inspire a new generation of grandmasters, but he should broaden his horizons to other games for kidsWhen I first introduced my six-year-old to backgammon, his reaction was delight, quickly followed by confusion and suspicion. It has dice! Like Mousetrap! But also: loads of plain counters, an extremely non-intuitive board, and a conspicuous lack of mice, penguins or pies. Could this be – I could see the thought briefly rumple his perfect pink brow – an attempt to

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