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Backgammon Ethics

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Tuesday, 30 October 2007, at 3:17 a.m.

In Response To: Backgammon Ethics (Stick)

It should be quite unnecesary to legislate against acts which annoy or do injustice to individuals, but there should be some provision in the laws of every game which will secure to each individual equal rights with others in the enjoyment of the game.

-- Foster, Robert Frederick. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at the Present Day, With suggestions for good play, a full code of laws, illustrative hands, and a brief statement of the doctrine of chances as applied to games. 3rd edition, London and New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1897

The "laws of checkers," according to Foster, were particularly stringent with regard to etiquette: Anything which may annoy or distract the attention of the player is strictly forbidden: such as making signs or sounds, pointing or hovering over the board, unnecessarily delaying to move a piece touched, or smoking. Any principal so acting, after having been warned and requested to desist, shall forfeit the game. But there's no mention of headphones.

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