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Illegal plays that can't be condoned
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Say I roll 2-1 in this position:
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+
| | | X X X X | | 2 |
| | | X X X X | +---+
| | | X X X X |
| | | X |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | O |
| | | O |
| | | O O O O |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
X rolls 2-1.
And make the illegal play of placing my own checker from the 3pt on the
bar, resulting in this position:
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+
| | | X X X X | | 2 |
| | | X X X X | +---+
| | | X X X X |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | X | |
| | | O |
| | | O |
| | | O O O O |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
X plays 3/bar(!).
My opponent rolls. Does the play stand?
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Robert Maier writes:
If called to the table in this situation, I would ask X if he intended to
bear the checker off. If the answer is yes, then the checker must be placed
off the board, where it belongs. O's roll stands and we move on.
A checker that clearly is meant to be borne off, and carelessly placed on
the bar, I deem to be borne off, at whatever point it is noticed. I base
that ruling on the second sentence of US Rule 4.4.
"Checkers which have been borne off must be kept off the entire playing
surface for the rest of the game. "
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Stick writes:
So what would you have ruled if you would have been called over in the
Ray/Bill situation?
Semi-Final match between Ray Fogerlund and Bill Calton. 11-point match,
Bill leads 6-2. Bill (X) rolls a joker.
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| O | | X X X X |
| | | X X X X |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | O |
| | | O O |
| | | O O |
| | | O O |
| | | O O |
| | | O O X | +---+
| X X X | | O O O X | | 4 |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
X rolls 4-4.
X puts his own checker on the bar, leaving the blot exposed,
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | X X X X |
| | | X X X X |
| | | |
| | | |
| | O | |
| | | O |
| | | O O |
| | | O O |
| | X | O O |
| | | O O |
| | | O O X | +---+
| X X | | O O O X | | 4 |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
instead of the safe legal play that left him to clear the 5, 3, and 2
points vs. an ace-point game.
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | X X X X |
| | | X X X X |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | O |
| | | O O |
| | | O O |
| | X | O O |
| | | O O |
| | | O O O X | +---+
| X X | | O O O X | | 4 |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Ray condoned the illegal play.
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Robert Maier writes:
You mean after I stuck my head through a plate glass window?
Without the crutch of "bearing off" to lean on, I would have ruled that it
was up to Ray to decide whether or not he wanted to condone the illegal
play. That is the rule as I understand it. That is the ruling I have seen
made in more than one previous instance, by experienced directors. I see no
rationale to make new case law on my own.
However, I am in favor of an amending the US Rules to state:
- That a player may not put their own checker on the bar.
- That if they notice they have placed their checker on the bar, the
checker should be placed where it belongs.
- That if the opponent notices the checker has been placed on the bar, they
should inform of such and have the checker replaced in the correct
position.
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Daniel Murphy writes:
If I were directing an ABT tournament with current ABT rules, my pre-
tourney announcement would be something like this:
A word about "illegal moves": 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.
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