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The two-hand rule

Posted By: Rich Munitz
Date: Monday, 24 January 2011, at 1:26 p.m.

In Response To: The two-hand rule (Jason Lee)

In my opinion, the intent of the one-hand rule is to ensure that there is no confusion in how the movement of the player's checkers are being moved in accordance with the dice, as doing otherwise requires the opponent to be looking at two places at once. I don't think that lifting a blot and putting it on the bar is such a source of confusion or ambiguity. An opponent's checker can have only one possible kind of movement - that is onto the bar. So it is not a source of ambiguity.

I agree that following the rule to the letter avoids any question. But I would not be inclined to enforce this aspect - if and only if the checker being lifted is the checker being hit by the checker(s) currently or about to be moved by the other hand. But the same caveat related to causality of the hit should be true even when moving with one hand. Sometimes a player will with one hand put a checker on the bar and then think about whether to actually hit it, or which checker (die) to hit it with.

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      Justin N. -- Saturday, 22 January 2011, at 7:39 p.m.
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    Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 22 January 2011, at 9:02 p.m.
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    Leonardo Jerkovic -- Saturday, 22 January 2011, at 10:37 p.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Sunday, 23 January 2011, at 2:03 a.m.
    • Why not post a more appropriate one, then? *NM*
      Chuck Bower -- Sunday, 23 January 2011, at 5:54 p.m.
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    neilkaz -- Sunday, 23 January 2011, at 5:14 a.m.
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    Julia Hayward -- Monday, 24 January 2011, at 9:51 a.m.
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      Bill Riles -- Monday, 24 January 2011, at 2:50 p.m.
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    Rich Munitz -- Monday, 24 January 2011, at 1:26 p.m.
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      Rich Munitz -- Monday, 24 January 2011, at 4:36 p.m.
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    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 24 January 2011, at 2:20 p.m.
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    Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 25 January 2011, at 1:09 a.m.
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    Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 28 January 2011, at 11:12 p.m.