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banning spectators

Posted By: Colin Owen
Date: Wednesday, 30 August 2017, at 12:42 a.m.

In Response To: banning spectators (Bob Koca)

I didn't state that it was easy; I said it would seem to be easier. Might have been more accurate to state that it would seem to be less hard.

My point is that, unless a player (or a TD off of his own back) asks the TD to listen to the recording, perhaps all of it, headphone cheating is not likely to be detected. If cheating by using headphones has never been detected in our game (unlike with others), this might be because no one has ever attempted it, or alternatively because staff have seldom, if ever been asked to check such equipment.

Cheating by signalling has not been easy to detect in bridge, I believe. It would seem to be quite a sophisticated art. But it is assisted in that game by the very fact it is a partner game, one where the players need to communicate during bidding, and where they sit opposite each other (cheating by signalling with the feet has been detected). Hand gestures and even the placing of cigarettes have been conjectured as cheating methods by teams with consistently suspicious results. The opportunities for spectators to communicate illicitly, and without detection, with backgammon players would seem to be more limited than in bridge therefore, but I'm sure it could be done.

Conversely, it would be simple enough to use headphones with useful information playing, and with very little chance of ever being challenged.

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