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Etiquette
Are there any circumstances where it is considered poor etiquette to
double? Example: I have 8 on my home board, opponent has six. I roll
double and now have 4, he rolls and now we each have 4 checkers on our
1 pts and its my roll. The only way I lose is if he rolls double
anything. I offered a double, he drops and calls me an #@$@$@.
My thinking is I want to win, right now if possible, why give him a
free shot at beating me when I can offer a double and take it down
right there. If he accepts, well god love him. Am I a jerk for doubling
there?
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Tom Keith writes:
Your double was perfectly fine; any good player would double
in this position.
Unfortunately some people don't lose gracefully.
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Kees van den Doel writes:
More controversial is offering a resign when there are substantial
chances of getting gammoned.
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Jim Segrave writes:
In OTB matches, it seems to me that this is an open insult -- you are
implying that you think your opponent is too stupid to see the gammon
chances.
On-line, there is an argument that people playing in a hurry (or for
turn based play, are trying to play too many games at the same time
and aren't paying attention), so there is some virtue in hoping for
such a mistake. I'd still consider it to be bad form. When an opponent
does this to me, the first time in a match I'll politely play on and
perhaps say something like I see enough gammon chances to make it
worth doing so. When it occurs again in the same match, I find it
insulting.
All in all, it's certainly rude and dubious sportsmanship.
In real life, it risks starting a major argument.
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Etiquette
- Am I too slow? (sevenout+, Apr 2004)
- Am I too slow? (Stephen Turner, Jan 2002)
- Am I too slow? (Daniel Murphy, June 1997)
- Commenting on dice (Ron Barry+, Mar 2001)
- Dealing with droppers (Bill Hill, Dec 1998)
- Dealing with droppers (Patti Beadles, Mar 1996)
- Dice cup (Walt Swan, June 2000)
- Direction of play (Ric Gerace+, Aug 2001)
- Doubling opponent out (bustedchucks+, June 2005)
- Doubling to end a game early (Douglas Zare, Aug 2001)
- Etiquette for online play (Dean Ayer+, June 1997)
- Going for backgammon in a one-point match (Douglas Zare, Nov 2000)
- How long to wait? (Marsha Wisniski+, Dec 1997)
- Listening to music while playing (Max Urban+, Oct 2009)
- Moving hit checker first (Timothy Chow+, Oct 2009)
- Premature shaking (Paul Epstein+, July 2005)
- Rolling the dice (Julius Selbach+, July 2005)
- Rude conduct (Igor Schein+, Mar 2003)
- Under resigning (Bob Newell+, Aug 2004)
- Under resigning (Ilya Vinogradsky+, May 1994)
- When to quit (Albert Steg, Nov 1998)
- Why I never complain about the dice (Phil Simborg, Mar 2004)
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