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Reminded again last night why I HATE non-Legal Moves

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2013, at 4:03 p.m.

In Response To: Reminded again last night why I HATE non-Legal Moves (Chris Haviland)

I agree it is a separate issue. If my opponent simply doesn't see a hit or good play, there is no question, regardless of the rules.

But what about the player who hits the clock because he doesn't realize his opponent has opened up his board and was used to just hitting the clock? Should he lose his turn for that accident? With legal moves, we let him have his turn.

What about the player who thought he hit your checker but picked up his own, instead, and put his own checker on the bar. With legal moves, no problem...it gets corrected. With the current ABT rules, a player is supposed to be penalized for this mistake, but again, many people's values of good sportsmanship would let him correct the mistake. Again, this puts me in a dilemma, as I would never ask or expect my opponent to allow me to correct this mistake and I expect my opponent to take advantage of my errors, so why should I cut him slack? Why, because many judge others to be unkind not to allow those corrections. The lines between good sportsmanship and following the rules, and doing what you can to win, which is also an obligation as well as a right, get blurred.

If you allow your opponent to correct some errors, where do you draw the line? All lines become blurred? If you "cut him slack" in some rules, what rules can you ever enforce? Can he roll fast? Can he pick up his dice and then change his mind quickly? Can he pick up the doubling cube and then change his mind?

The answer is, in my opinion, that you have really good, fair rules, and you enforce them strictly on your opponent and yourself. The reason we have these problems is that non-legal moves create these dilemmas because silly mistakes are punished too harshly and most of us really don't want to win that way or see our opponent punished that way. The answer is simple, and again, MOST around the world agree: change the rule to a fairer rule that allows for a more friendly, pleasant competition.

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