| |
BGonline.org Forums
Listing Impossible Plays
Posted By: Gregg Cattanach In Response To: Favorable Review of Rob Maier's Pittsburgh Tournament (Daniel Murphy)
Date: Wednesday, 23 February 2011, at 4:49 a.m.
You cannot put yourself on the bar. You cannot bear off your opponent's checker. You cannot bring your opponent's checker in from the bar. If you hit your opponent's checker, it must go to the bar. In fact, you cannot move your opponent's checkers at all, except by hitting, in which case the hit checker must go to to the bar. Infractions are not condonable "illegal moves." They must be corrected.
Well stated. Even though I continue to believe the current rule 4.8 works perfectly well, these 'impossible' moves can cause considerable grief if and when they do occur, and I understand the philosophical objection to allowing moves like those on your list.
It is within the powers of any ABT tournament director to add conditions to the US Backgammon Tournament Rules & Procedures for his tournament. If a director chooses to list SPECIFIC situations (in writing, of course) like the above that are exceptions to rule 4.8 for his event, I have no objection to that at all. But the list must be SPECIFIC and any actions outside this list of exceptions can still be condoned illegal plays.
'Legal Plays' is still silly, but enumerating specific, impossible moves that must be corrected and cannot be condoned would be fine with me.
An attempt was made to do this exact thing when Bill, Danny and I rewrote the US rules in 2007 but we could not agree on the wording of such a rule and a simple, brief definition of an 'impossible action', therefore rule 4.8 remained unchanged.
Gregg C.
| |
BGonline.org Forums is maintained by Stick with WebBBS 5.12.