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My recollection of conway is that he was quite good at backgammon -- good enough to make a bet to swap salaries with a lecturer over a public series of 30 (or m
by gbronner 7y ago
My recollection of conway is that he was quite good at backgammon -- good enough to make a bet to swap salaries with a lecturer over a public series of 30 (or more) games held in the common room. I believe that he won by one.
- ColinWright 7y agoWhen I played with him we enjoyed the game, so it's not clear he was playing to win. Actually, it was clear ... he was not playing to win, he was playing to have an interesting game. I'm sure he could have played seriously and thrashed me, had he chosen.