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Falafel v Doug Huch conso now: two hands OK?
Posted By: Barry Silliman In Response To: Falafel v Doug Huch conso now: two hands OK? (Colin Owen)
Date: Sunday, 8 January 2017, at 3:07 p.m.
It seems I did not make my point well in my post. It may easily be interpreted as "everybody breaks the rules, what's the big deal". I wholeheartedly agree that using two hands to move is not okay. The point I may have failed to get across was more along the lines of "why is DougH being singled out, he is far from the only offender in this regard".
Regarding two hands, one thing I've noticed is that many players who normally move correctly with one hand will often use two hands when hitting an opponent's blot. They will often use one hand to move the attacking checker while using the other hand to lift the blot. This is still not okay.
And while this is admittedly more subjective, I've seen many players move checkers in what I do not consider to be a clear manner.
In the rules, there are lots of "must"s and "shall"s which I consider to mean mandatory, and lots of "should"s, which I consider to be suggestions for best practice, and I am of the mindset that world class players should follow best practice as an example to others. In the recent USBGF rules the word "must" appears 49 times, the word "shall" appears 90 times, and the word "should" appears 51 times.
Were I offered to be paid one dollar for each instance of a violation of "must", "shall" and "should" from the matches streamed from New York this weekend, I would find it a profitable use of time, even if the 'Falafal v Doug Huch' match were to be excluded from this offer.
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