International Tourny Formats Rules - Who Can Help?
Thurner Roland
I heard a lot of discussions in the last month about "international rules"
for tournys, formats, late arrives, main-consolation-last cahnce, and so on.
Who can help me please?
1. In boxing is existing a WBO, WBA ..., in soccer we have FIFA, ... what is
about backgammon? Is here a acknowledged institution or maybe even some?
2. Rules for tourny formats I found also on a lot of homepages, but which
are the correct one for an international tournys, or is it up to the
organizer?
3. What are the rules for the biggest tournys in the world? Are the rules
differnt?
4. If I organize a online tourny, what else I have to respect?
Many thanks for your help
Roland
Tapio Palmroth
The best and most used international rules can be found at
www.chicagopoint.com
also from there you can find maybe the best link central where you can get
in contact to many tournament organizers both offline and online.
There is also an organisation that calls itself international , but it and
its rules has no respect among the players and organisers (WBF,if i remember
right).
May the luck be on your side !
Tapio
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Daniel Murphy
Backgammon is not organized like football (soccer) or chess with
national organizations under an international umbrella. There is no
international backgammon authority. Tournament organizers set the
rules for their tournaments. Nonetheless, there is little difference
in the rules sets used at tournaments on the international backgammon
circuit.
We might distinguish between (1) rules of play, (2) tournament rules
and procedures and (3) tournament format.
Rules of play describe a particular variation of backgammon and on
this there is no disagreement among international tournaments. In
fact, tournament rules sets do not usually specify these rules but
might instead refer, as in the US Rules, to the "commonly accepted
rules of backgammon." It is understood that this means backgammon as
played at international tournaments, not another variant in its own
right such as plakoto, portes, fevka or portos. See www.bkgm.com or
www.gammonvillage.com for the usual rules of play in international
backgammon, or www.chicagopoint.com/links.html for links to
descriptions of other variations.
Tournament rules specify procedures that players and directors must
follow in tournament match play with regard to equipment, order of
play, handling of dice, checkers and cube, scoring, ethics, errors,
enforcement and dispute resolution. On these, international tournament
rules sets differ. In most cases the differences are minor but
tournament players should always be mindful of the peculiarities of
any particular set of rules.
By tournament format I mean such things as entry and registration
fees, prizes, divisions (open, intermediate, beginner, etc.) and
qualifications for same, number of rounds, match length, awarding of
byes, nature of tournament (cup system, monrad, Swiss), qualifying
rounds, if any, and consolation and/or last chance brackets, if any.
These are tournament-specific and are not codified in any rules set.
A primary source for tournament rules and procedures is the "United
States Backgammon Tournament Rules and Procedures," March 1990. These
rules (with minor variations) govern all tournaments of the American
Backgammon Tour. Many tournament organizers in other countries also
use these rules, sometimes with some modification. See
www.chicagopoint.com/usrules.html.
A second reference point is the rules set of the so-called World
Backgammon Federation, which governs tournaments sanctioned by the WBF
and has in the past been used here and there as the basis for other
rules sets. See www.wbf.net.
In some countries, backgammon is well-organized on a national level,
and most or all tournaments in these countries are conducted under the
rules of their respective national organizations. These include the
British Isles Backgammon Association in the UK and the national
federations of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The BIBA rules differ in
one or two minor but important ways from the US Rules. See
http://www.cottagewebs.co.uk/biba/. A major revision of the Danish
rules, which were largely identical to the US Rules of March 1990,
goes into effect in June this year. An English version will be
available shortly at the DBgF home page. See www.dbgf.dk.
The list of countries with active organizations of a national
character grows slowly. Recent additions include Ireland, Japan and
France. But there are also major international tournaments in some
countries with no national organization or where longstanding
tournaments are not organized by more recently established
organizations, including Monaco, site of the backgammon World
Championship, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Thailand, Switzerland,
Austria and Slovenia. At these tournaments, the rules are entirely up
to their organizers, who may use the US Rules, WBF Rules, or their
own.
Online tournament rules must address procedures for notifying
opponents, match completion deadlines, dispute resolution,
online-specific errors in play and server crashes. A model for online
rules is the rules set of David Escoffery's tournaments on FIBS. See
http://www.escoffery.com/rules.txt. See also the homepages of
GamesGrid and Netgammon or the other 23 sites offering online
backgammon.
Daniel Murphy
Raccoon on FIBS, GamesGrid
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