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New U.S. Rules ratified

Posted By: Stick
Date: Wednesday, 5 December 2007, at 4:43 p.m.

In Response To: New U.S. Rules ratified (Gregg Cattanach)

I've never actually read the rules (til now). Going to more & more tourneys I see things come up, things that are pure common sense, and wonder why we really need a set of rules. [that's rhetoric]

Question #1: If a player objects to me taking pictures of positions, what's the ruling? He always objects to me writing down the positions. He says "Just play the game". The first picture I took was a cube in the second game so it wasn't as if I was abusing this 'priveledge', it was at this time, the first photo op, that he spoke up.

Question #2: If a monitor is assigned, what are his duties?

Question #3: 3.2 - Prior to the start ("commencement", quit trying to be official lol) of a match, the backgammon board, direction of play, checker color, and seat location may be decided by rolls of the dice.

Does this mean we roll for boards, I lose. We roll for direction, I lose. We roll for checker color, I lose. We roll for seat location, I lose!? Or does it somehow mean we roll for boards and whoever wins picks the board to be played on then I, the losing player, have next choice?

4.3 - A player shall move the checkers in an unambiguous manner, using only one hand. I wish more people would do this, I don't know why I find it annoying when ppl use both hands but I do.

4.5 - A player may reposition his dice ... For everyone out there I suggest doing this at the beginning of your turn before you've even moved a checker. I often do this when I see my checkers may move where the dice are, instead of moving the checker and then kicking the die out of the way, I move the dice to the center of the board before moving.

4.7 - Error in Setup - correct prior to fifth roll. So 4 moves in we notice we had a bad starting position, how do we 'correct' it?

Question #4: 5.6 - Dead Cube - it should be clarified that a person may not recube when he owns the cube and the value of the cube would put him out (make him the winner of the match) but not his opponent.

Stick

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