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Jacoby Rule is a Compromise

Posted By: Colin Owen
Date: Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 6:47 a.m.

If losing the skill factor of deciding whether to play on for a gammon is a price worth paying in order to speed up the game - why does it only apply with a centred (or one) cube? Why not negate all gammons and backgammon wins for a player who has cube access? Is the game so much less 'boring' if the cube has been turned one or more times?

If we were so desperate to speed up the game would we not have a trebling (as UBK recently raised) or even quadrupling cube?

I will play Jacoby/non Jacoby; I'm not bothered, but am surprised no one else has ever pointed out the compromise that Jacoby is. We seem to play blindly to convention in this game.

Messages In This Thread

• Jacoby Rule is a Compromise
  Colin Owen -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 6:47 a.m.
  • Jacoby Rule is a Compromise
    Keene -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 3:40 p.m.
    • Jacoby Rule is a Compromise
      Stanley E. Richards -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 10:07 p.m.
    • Jacoby Rule is a Compromise
      Colin Owen -- Saturday, 12 March 2011, at 6:58 a.m.
  • Jacoby Rule is a Compromise
    Phil Simborg -- Thursday, 10 March 2011, at 10:17 p.m.