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Bill Finneran vs. Sam Ahmed – Illegal Move
Posted By: Jason Lee In Response To: Bill Finneran vs. Sam Ahmed – Illegal Move (Art Grater)
Date: Wednesday, 25 February 2015, at 9:44 p.m.
So with a LM time penalty for human error, why would you want your opponent to immediately lose by misplaying a roll or making one of the mistakes you mentioned?
Well, you haven't heard exactly what the penalty is.
I want a modest penalty for any rules infraction. This includes:
- Making an illegal play
- Handling the dice on the opponents turn
- Picking up ones own dice
- Eating a greasy burger while playing on my board
- Maybe some others that I'm not thinking of
For one of these violations, you'll be penalized 60 seconds on your clock. I don't really care about the value of 60 seconds, but perhaps it shouldn't be too much smaller.
If your reserve time under 60 seconds when you incur a penalty, then you don't lose the match, however, upon the next infraction, you WOULD lose the match.
In practice, I don't want to enforce these, but I want it codified so that I can. For example, there IS already a penalty on the books for picking up the dice before the opponent hits the clock, but I've never seen it enforced.
So when would I enforce it? When my opponent makes a lot of misplays or rules violations. I need to be able to protect myself.
A few years ago, when I was playing regular in the Las Vegas Backgammon Club, there was a guy who regularly made illegal moves. He was an out and out cheater, and I told him so, because 95% of his illegal moves swung equity in his favor. He had no incentive to stop, because there was no penalty for his transgressions.
JLee
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