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Controversy in the Chou
Posted By: Daniel Murphy In Response To: Controversy in the Chou (Frank_N_Stein)
Date: Tuesday, 29 September 2009, at 9:11 p.m.
Right or wrong this is how the rule was interpretted that day.
Wrong, dead wrong. In this order, you: rolled, picked up your own checker, moved the checker you were hitting off its point, put your own checker down, picked up the hit checker, picked up your dice, put the hit checker on the bar ... and got royally screwed by 7 holders of 4-cube holders who didn't want to lose 56 points.
Let's suppose that picking up your dice completed your play. Let's suppose that your play was illegal, because at the time you picked up your dice a checker that should have been somewhere on the board (including the bar) was instead in your hand. Then, your opponents' recourse was clearly defined by the rules: they could either (a) condone your play (in which, case, duh!, the checker that everyone agreed had been hit goes on the bar, or (b) force you to play a legal move -- to be clear, any legal move of your choice, not theirs. Obviously, the play you would choose would be to hit the checker and put it on the bar. They did not have the right to force you to make some other move more advantageous to them. But that's what they did.
I sympathize with Frank's slippery slope point (echoing Phil and others) that "We play by a set of rules and the rules must be followed. If we bend the rules for one we must bend the rules for others." Ironically, however, in Frank's case intended to illustrate the point, his opponents bent the rules to benefit themselves.
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