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Dice on a Checker

Posted By: christian munk-christensen
Date: Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 1:05 p.m.

In Response To: Dice on a Checker (Bill Riles)

Based on the description of what happened on the committee I get the feeling that this rule was introduced because of 1 very vocal guy who used to play like that in his home country.

I consider the issues which the committee tried to solve by the introduction of the new rule to be non-issues. Eg I prefer to bear off on the right and feel no disadvantage because of that.

I don't feel it's a big hassle to occassionally have to reroll because I wasn't able to make the dice end up flat on the board. I get new delay and am back in the same situation where I was at the end of the opponent's turn. No more than 5-6 seconds have been wasted by that and it's certainly not something which is holding up any tournament. If it is, then the schedule is already too tight to begin with.

I don't like changing a well functioning rule which is pretty close to being universally accepted for reasons which are overstated.

Messages In This Thread

• Dice on a Checker
  Bill Riles -- Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 1:51 a.m.
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    Colin Owen -- Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 3:09 a.m.
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      Bill Riles -- Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 3:34 a.m.
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        Colin Owen -- Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 3:59 a.m.
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          ScottJ -- Tuesday, 13 December 2016, at 3:09 p.m.
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            Stick -- Tuesday, 13 December 2016, at 4:45 p.m.
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              Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 13 December 2016, at 8:36 p.m.
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        christian munk-christensen -- Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 1:05 p.m.
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          neilkaz -- Thursday, 15 December 2016, at 6:33 p.m.
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            Bill Riles -- Thursday, 15 December 2016, at 9:28 p.m.
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    Bob Koca -- Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 3:12 a.m.
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      Bill Riles -- Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 3:38 a.m.
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    Michael Mesich -- Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 6:37 a.m.
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      neilkaz -- Thursday, 15 December 2016, at 6:20 p.m.
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    Albert Steg -- Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 4:00 p.m.
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      Bill Riles -- Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 4:46 p.m.
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        Stick -- Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 4:54 p.m.
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    Art Grater -- Saturday, 10 December 2016, at 7:49 p.m.
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    svilo -- Sunday, 11 December 2016, at 10:30 p.m.