Rules ?
Thomas Christner
run into this before last week. Everyone knows of course that when a roll
is misplayed, the opponent has the option of letting it stand or making
the player move legally. Now then...last week I was in a chouette for
small stakes and my opponent moved illegally. At first, I thought I
wanted him to make a legal play and told him so. Then after looking at
the legal move he chose, I thought I wanted him to go back to his
original, illegal play. Since, I had not yet rolled, I thought I still
had the right to change my mind but he insisted that once I tell him my
decision, I can't change my mind. Now then, if you are making a play of
course you can change your mind until you pick up your dice. So...since I
had not rolled mine, isn't that basically the same thing. Maybe I'm all
wrong but I would like to know what the world wide backgammon community
consensus is on this. Thanks in advance for the input! Tom Christner
Michael J Zehr
>Now then...last week I was in a chouette for
>small stakes and my opponent moved illegally. At first, I thought I
>wanted him to make a legal play and told him so. Then after looking at
>the legal move he chose, I thought I wanted him to go back to his
>original, illegal play. Since, I had not yet rolled, I thought I still
>had the right to change my mind but he insisted that once I tell him my
>decision, I can't change my mind.
Your opponent is correct. All you get to do is decide whether to accept
the legal play or not. Once you don't accept the roll, then the
opponent starts the play over.
-michael j zehr
Richard Jacobson
: Hi everyone. I've been playing BG for almost 20 years now and I have not
: is misplayed, the opponent has the option of letting it stand or making
: wanted him to make a legal play and told him so. Then after looking at
: the legal move he chose, I thought I wanted him to go back to his
: original, illegal play. Since, I had not yet rolled, I thought I still
: had the right to change my mind but he insisted that once I tell him my
: had not rolled mine, isn't that basically the same thing. Maybe I'm all
: wrong but I would like to know what the world wide backgammon community
: consensus is on this. Thanks in advance for the input! Tom Christner
My opinion is that once you told him to make a legal play that you
were bound by that decision. Otherwise every time someone made an
illegal play you could ask them to make a legal play and then decide
which play to accept. This would unnecessarily slow the game down.
Before deciding whether to accept the illegal play one must look
carefully at the possible legal plays that may improve upon the
position.
On the other hand I guess one could make an argument for making
a stronger penalty for making an illegal play since the person
making the play has very little to lose if he just has to take
the move back.
jake_