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BG board with auto-pipcount?

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Thursday, 13 August 2009, at 12:15 a.m.

In Response To: BG board with auto-pipcount? (Bill Riles)

Can you not count? It's part of the game.

That's a fair question. I certainly can't count rapidly enough to know what the exact pipcount is on every single roll, at least at the time controls currently in use. I'm sure that few, if any, other people can count that rapidly either. It's a reasonable point of view that fast counting ability is part of the game, and that automatic pip counting should be disallowed in tournaments even if the technology became available.

But more to the point, I didn't really have tournament play in mind. I was thinking more of chouettes, where I would like to have fun arguing about the significance of the pip count without having to actually stop and calculate it.

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