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Not reminding your opponent to press the clock
Posted By: Phil Simborg In Response To: Not reminding your opponent to press the clock (Tom Keith)
Date: Thursday, 25 December 2014, at 3:29 p.m.
Good sportsmanship, to an extent, CAN be legislated. Some of the good sportsmanship-related activities can be stated....for example the rules can specifically say you cannot berate your opponent and you can not say nasty things and you cannot intentionally try to distract your opponent etc.
But also there is a Standard of Ethical behavior and a statement that all people shall act in a gentlemanly fashion, and even if that is not clearly defined, with that statement in place the TD is then clearly empowered to decide when someone has overstepped the boundaries and take action.
I agree that the line is subjective, and that we cannot completely define where and how to draw the line, but we can and do give the TD the right to make that call, and therefore, it is legislated.
And over time, it becomes fairly clear what is and is not acceptable in backgammon. Not pointing out a score error is not only considered bad sportsmanship, we call it cheating. To prove that someone did it on purpose is the problem. Not calling a clock error is considered poor sportsmanship. If you sit there and pretend not to notice and you clearly did notice and bragged about it or smiled why your opponent's clock runs out, I would hope the TD would take strong action.
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