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Jacoby Rule is a Compromise

Posted By: Colin Owen
Date: Saturday, 12 March 2011, at 6:58 a.m.

In Response To: Jacoby Rule is a Compromise (Keene)

Keene,

I really don't think I have confused speeding up the game and multiplying the stakes! My main point was that, boring games are just that, whether on a one cube or higher. I agree wholeheartedly that the Jacoby rule eliminates those less interesting games that would develop with 6 chequers on the bar. (Whilst also eliminating the skill of judging if we're too good in slightly less obvious situations!) So, if such games are best avoided, why not do it at ALL levels of the cube? For example, those games where you prime a chequer, and try - probably in vain - to get your opponent to leave another blot in board, endlessly recycling your blots trying to hit another one of his. Can go on for ages even though you're only slightly too good. Applying the Jacoby principle whole hog you would be forced to cash, owning the cube.

Phil,

If there is one player who doesn't act like 'unthinking sheep' it is you! But we can play by the rules and conventions whilst also questioning some of them. My experience is that few players do. This has nothing to do with the rules being perfect; they aren't!

Messages In This Thread

• Jacoby Rule is a Compromise
  Colin Owen -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 6:47 a.m.
  • Jacoby Rule is a Compromise
    Keene -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 3:40 p.m.
    • Jacoby Rule is a Compromise
      Stanley E. Richards -- Wednesday, 9 March 2011, at 10:07 p.m.
    • Jacoby Rule is a Compromise
      Colin Owen -- Saturday, 12 March 2011, at 6:58 a.m.
  • Jacoby Rule is a Compromise
    Phil Simborg -- Thursday, 10 March 2011, at 10:17 p.m.