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Speed Gammon Clock Ruling

Posted By: Albert Steg
Date: Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 2:51 a.m.

Let;s say I am an experienced player in general and know my way around the block, but haven't had a lot of experience in tight clock situations. I'm playing my for first time in a Speed Gammon side event.

In my second oe third match, I am playing a person I played, and beat, in a different event that weekend. I have reached DMP and closed out my opponent and am in the bearoff phase, just needing to clear his checker without getting hit to clinch the match. I have 8 seconds in the bank, and am rolling carefully so I don't dump them on the floor or cock them, wasting precious seconds.

In the midst of my bearing off, for the first time in maybe 10 games over two matches, after I roll my dice, my opponent objects to my rolling style, asking me to please make sure the dice are not touching my fingers as they come out of the cup.

I am totally non-plussed, disrupted and annoyed, and my brain immediately kicks into a kind of fair-play mode where I defend myself and ask what he's talking about while my clock ticks down, and I realize too late that I've squandered my time in argument and my clock times out. He claims victory.

Do I lose? Do I appeal? What should the TD rule?

A normal part of Speedgammon gamesmanship? Cheating? Something in between? What would you call it? Should I not be thinking as badly about my opponent as I must say I still do when I see him and he acts all friendly and I don't feel like shaking his hand? Should I just be thinking about this as part of the rough-and-tumble of speed gammon?

(This actually happened to me in San Antonio in 2017, except I didn't run out of time, and won the match. I'm looking for reasons not to think the worst of this person).

Albert

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  Albert Steg -- Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 2:51 a.m.
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    BenF -- Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 2:54 a.m.
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      Art Grater -- Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 9:26 p.m.
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    Casper Van der Tak -- Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 8:01 a.m.
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    Stick -- Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 2:09 p.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Saturday, 12 May 2018, at 8:30 p.m.
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      Albert Steg -- Sunday, 13 May 2018, at 2:10 p.m.
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    niuniuch -- Sunday, 13 May 2018, at 8:17 a.m.
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      Colin Owen -- Sunday, 13 May 2018, at 1:44 p.m.
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      Albert Steg -- Sunday, 13 May 2018, at 1:57 p.m.
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    Bob Koca -- Monday, 14 May 2018, at 2:40 a.m.
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      Florin Popa -- Monday, 14 May 2018, at 12:38 p.m.
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        Colin Owen -- Monday, 14 May 2018, at 1:07 p.m.
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          Florin Popa -- Monday, 14 May 2018, at 2:05 p.m.
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            PINO -- Thursday, 17 May 2018, at 9:41 a.m.
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              Bob Koca -- Friday, 18 May 2018, at 12:38 a.m.
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                Colin Owen -- Friday, 18 May 2018, at 4:43 a.m.
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                Florin Popa -- Friday, 18 May 2018, at 10:17 a.m.
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                  Tom Keith -- Friday, 18 May 2018, at 11:43 a.m.
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                    Colin Owen -- Friday, 18 May 2018, at 12:35 p.m.