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Die on a Checker Tales

Posted By: Tom Keith
Date: Wednesday, 16 August 2017, at 6:00 p.m.

In Response To: Die on a Checker Tales (neilkaz)

Neil wrote: If BG were invented today so one ever heard of the rule that all dice on checkers are cocked, that dice anywhere on the playing surface or checkers that are flat would be considered to be a valid roll and that no one would even question this rule.

You can say that about a lot of rules. (What if we had always played, "When you can play either number but not both you may choose which one to play." Or, "When bearing off, you must maximize the pips used." Nobody would question those rules today either.)

Regardless of the merits the of the dice-on-checkers rule, it seems clear that it was a mistake for the USBGF to try to incorporate a rule change like this (a new way of playing) into its tournament rules revision. It is hard enough to get consensus on revisions without such a distraction.

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