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A Family Business

Risk of Ruin

CHAPTER

How to Get an Informational Edge in Backgammon

The game hasn't held a prominent cultural position for a long time. But if you're interested in how people get edges, then Jim's story will be interesting. One way to describe an edge is the information you have which is valuable and uniquely yours. So it helps to be contrarian. You have to be willing to believe that everyone else is missing something. "It does no good to buck conventional wisdom and be wrong"

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