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ruling regarding touching checkers

Posted By: Art Grater
Date: Thursday, 28 July 2011, at 7:46 a.m.

In Response To: ruling regarding touching checkers (Phil Simborg)

Phil, I have no doubt you'll do a good and fair job. My objections, more or less, are as follows:

1. For most players, backgammon is a GAME. It's not the practice of law, where we need, or at least have, endless written codes. It's a game. We all want to win, but we're there to have fun, not begin serving time in a penal colony. New players will especially be intimidated at seeing tournament rules that look like the internal revenue code.

3. TDs have the power, within reason, of barring players. They don't need a rule book for that. Speaking of TDs, what's more fun than eavesdropping on a dispute between two stubborn players and an even more stubborn TD?

4. Few if any directors are going to be in 100% agreement with anything you create, no matter how fair and reasonable it is. (Except at any tournaments you run.) If you include a provision that TDs can override the rules, then you are back to the status quo with respect to a set of rules players can depend upon.

5. While each individual rule will have merit if not best intentions, the sheer weight of them will be an anchor, and I don't mean the 20-point.

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