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Forget "touch/move" and use "move/move"
Posted By: winfox In Response To: Forget "touch/move" and use "move/move" (Phil Simborg)
Date: Wednesday, 19 June 2013, at 4:19 a.m.
By trying to improve or streamline rules with forced moves when the hand leaves a checker, an unintended consequence is that of complex situations where one player 'believes' rightly or wrongly that the other has completed a play by releasing a checker and insists that the move stands.
Even so, is the move complete when the hand leaves checkers that have been played legally, while the dice are still on the board? What would constitute a premature roll?
While most players are honest and enjoy a high level of integrity, there are and will always be opportunists seeking to gain a well timed improper advantage by cloaking it in sincerity. We could call it gamesmanship or cheating, but there's always that grey area where it could seem to be an honest mistake by one side or the other.
Could turn out to be just another tool for the opportunist, much like reaching for the dice pretending to complete a move and hoping to encourage a premature roll, or picking up bad dice to reroll when one is plausibly cocked, or even fast playing and picking up good dice that seem to be cocked.
Moving off topic, I agree that no-cocked-dice in the right half of the board makes a ton of sense, removes much ambiguity, and also tends to deter opportunism.
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