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"Dead" cube illegal?

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Tuesday, 5 November 2013, at 3:12 a.m.

In Response To: "Dead" cube illegal? (Michael Petch)

That's easy. See Rule 1.2. When did the "commonly accepted rules of backgammon" ever included the idea that a person can lose an ABT tournament match on a dropped cube? I submit to you that at ABT tournaments no one plays that way; no one has ever played that way; and no ABT director has ever been so ignorant of common practice to ever have thought that any of his or her co-directors would ever have ruled that ABT rules permit it.

I have no huge objection to adding a sentence to the rules, but neither do I see any need for that.

And let's not confuse intentionally resigning a match with inadvertently dropping a match-losing cube. I don't think that's helpful. Dropping cubes and resigning matches are two different things.

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