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tournament rules and ethics--Sorry, I completely disagree with Falafel on this one

Posted By: Turz
Date: Wednesday, 4 May 2011, at 12:17 p.m.

In Response To: tournament rules and ethics--Sorry, I completely disagree with Falafel on this one (Phil Simborg)

Yours are very wise words but, sorry, I don't agree with you in your main message.

Can you imagine a tennis player letting his opponent take the point because he “forgot” that he couldn’t hit the net with his racket? Can you imagine a football player telling his opponent it was okay that he was offsides…go ahead and take the win because I don’t want to win that way?

It's not the same thing and a more appropriate example would be that a football player runs from midfield to his own goal and scores an own goal against his own goalkeeper, thinking to be scoring a goal for his team, not against it.
The BIG difference is that nobody would do something like that in football, because it takes a lot of time and he would for sure notice the mistake from the attitude (and uniform, and faces) of all the other players. In backgammon, instead, it's an even too common mistake.

Of course, errors like that must not be made. But in cases where it's clear what the intended move was, I see a big gap between the mistake and the punishment.

If BG had referees watching, this would never have happened. [BTW, would a referee for semifinals and finals of main tournaments be so a weird thing?]

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