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    From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 28 21:10:45 2023
    I was cleaning up my office and came across a copy of _The Prime_
    which was the irregular journal of the Pacific Backgammon Association,
    which ran tournaments all around the S.F. Bay Area in the 1970's.
    (I ran one at Spat's, a bar in Berkeley.)

    Here's a picture of the association standings as of 24 November 1979:

    http://panix.com/~bks/Pix/prime.jpg

    Keep in mind that the master points were awarded cumulatively,
    so the fact that I was well above U.S. chess champion Walter
    Browne and backgammon guru Nack Ballard is mostly due to the
    fact that I played in more PBA tournaments than they did.

    --bks

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  • From Timothy Chow@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Sat Sep 30 09:00:50 2023
    On 9/28/2023 5:10 PM, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
    I was cleaning up my office and came across a copy of _The Prime_
    which was the irregular journal of the Pacific Backgammon Association,
    which ran tournaments all around the S.F. Bay Area in the 1970's.
    (I ran one at Spat's, a bar in Berkeley.)

    Here's a picture of the association standings as of 24 November 1979:

    http://panix.com/~bks/Pix/prime.jpg

    Interesting to see that Elliott Winslow, who is better known as a chess
    player, is also on the list. In the early days of BGOnline, Winslow was
    a fairly active participant.

    ---
    Tim Chow

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to tchow12000@yahoo.com on Sat Sep 30 13:23:46 2023
    Timothy Chow <tchow12000@yahoo.com> wrote:
    On 9/28/2023 5:10 PM, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
    I was cleaning up my office and came across a copy of _The Prime_
    which was the irregular journal of the Pacific Backgammon Association,
    which ran tournaments all around the S.F. Bay Area in the 1970's.
    (I ran one at Spat's, a bar in Berkeley.)

    Here's a picture of the association standings as of 24 November 1979:

    http://panix.com/~bks/Pix/prime.jpg

    Interesting to see that Elliott Winslow, who is better known as a chess >player, is also on the list. In the early days of BGOnline, Winslow was
    a fairly active participant.

    I know Elliott pretty well. We were in the same entering class
    at CWRU (1969). He was still focussed on chess in those days.
    He was already a better BG player than I was at that time, which
    really pissed me off. In between matches at Spats (note correct
    typography) he would take out a mini-chess set and make notes with
    an extremely fine rapidograph in the margin of whatever game
    he was studying. I have other observations too wild and crazy for
    public exposition.

    --bks

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 3 12:44:32 2023
    Here's a picture of the association standings as of 24 November 1979:

    http://panix.com/~bks/Pix/prime.jpg

    BTW, Zafer Yasa (13.25 master points) was the first (or among
    the first) to produce femtosecond laser pulses. He founded
    this company:
    <https://www.femtochrome.com/>

    I mention this because of today's Nobel Prize in Physics: <https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/03/europe/nobel-prize-physics-electrons-flashes-light-intl-scn/index.html>

    --bks

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