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If you think the ABT dead-cube rule is poorly written, try the WBA dead-cube rule

Posted By: Jim Stutz
Date: Monday, 16 January 2017, at 2:47 a.m.

In Response To: Links to previous discussions about redoubling a dead cube (Timothy Chow)

WBA Rules, 4.4.7 DEAD CUBES: A player cannot double beyond the number of points still needed to win a match.

Try reconciling this opaque language when, for example, you're simply holding a 2-cube at 3a/3a and wishing to redouble to 4 for the match.

Anyway, it would seem that any current discussion of the old "ABT rules" as they apply to ABT tournament play is moot, now that the USBGF has absorbed the ABT. As of Jan 1, 2017, the USBGF rulebook is the default controlling authority on the American Backgammon Tour, per its metarule 1.1:

"These tournament rules ... shall apply to all tournaments affiliated with the USBGF ... and no rules other than these rules may be used except as may be expressly promulgated by the Tournament Director in advance."

So, the long and justifiably maligned ABT dead-cube rule 5.6 is gone for good, unless exhumed and "expressly promulgated" by a tournament director before.

Messages In This Thread

• Legal Move (Redouble) ?
  Dan Wittkopp -- Sunday, 15 January 2017, at 8:06 p.m.
  • Legal Move (Redouble) ?
    Albert Steg -- Sunday, 15 January 2017, at 8:40 p.m.
    • Legal Move (Redouble) ?
      Dmitriy Obukhov -- Sunday, 15 January 2017, at 8:59 p.m.
  • Links to previous discussions about redoubling a dead cube
    Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 15 January 2017, at 9:20 p.m.
    • Dead cube
      Bob Koca -- Sunday, 15 January 2017, at 10:07 p.m.
      • Dead cube
        Timothy Chow -- Monday, 16 January 2017, at 12:00 a.m.
    • If you think the ABT dead-cube rule is poorly written, try the WBA dead-cube rule
      Jim Stutz -- Monday, 16 January 2017, at 2:47 a.m.