{"id":312,"date":"2011-03-14T18:54:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/?p=312"},"modified":"2011-03-14T18:54:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:54:23","slug":"backgammon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/2011\/03\/14\/backgammon\/","title":{"rendered":"Backgammon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Math faculty members received the following email this week, and it is included here for any interested students:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am a representative of the US Backgammon Assn and I would very much like to sponsor and coach a Backgammon team from Truman.\u00a0 We only need 3 players to compete at schools, but I need help publicizing this project and finding players.<\/p>\n<p>In case you aren\u2019t familiar with Backgammon, it is, of course, a fun board game, but it is ALL MATH.\u00a0 Odds and probability determines every decision, and to play well, one must do a lot of math and figure the odds and decide what risks to take.\u00a0 We are finding success at colleges around the country getting Math and Computer Science majors interested in Backgammon.\u00a0 I am hoping you could help me find the right people to talk to that would be interested in sponsoring a team or club at your school.\u00a0\u00a0Note that there is no travel or expense involved as all inter-collegiate competition is on line.\u00a0 Even if we have students who don\u2019t know the game, we will teach them and coach them.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Simborg<\/p>\n<p>Education Advisor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usbgf.org\/\">www.usbgf.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>312-543-0522<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math faculty members received the following email this week, and it is included here for any interested students: I am a representative of the US Backgammon Assn and I would very much like to sponsor and coach a Backgammon team from Truman.\u00a0 We only need 3 players to compete at schools, but I need help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}