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

Posted By: Stein Kulseth
Date: Wednesday, 4 May 2011, at 4:09 p.m.

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

Side note, I am not even sure that allowing the opponent to condone bearing off onto the bar can be said to be following the rules strictly. Which of course depend on your ruleset, but take the US rules from http://www.chicagopoint.com/usrules.html, which is a good example, not having a legal move requirement. Here you have:

4.4 CHECKER HANDLING. Checkers which have been hit must be kept on the bar pending reentry. Checkers which have been borne off must be kept off the entire playing surface for the rest of the game. A player with a checker illegally removed from play may still be gammoned or backgammoned.

So I would say that the player is not even allowed to put his borne off checker on the bar which is obviously part of the playing surface. Doing so is an infringement, but the rule still applies, and they still must be kept off the playing surface for the rest of the game. Whether the error is serious enough to warrant other punishment is up to the TD, I think I'd rule that the embarassement is punishment enough...

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