June 20, 2024 at 11:11 am
#5717
John Tofalis
Participant
+1
Completely agree. It’s another pointless call and stoppage, and it would make the game harder and more interesting. The only arguments against this is that it may hurt beginners, so I do think this could be moved to almost ‘an optional rule’ – where beginner tournaments can choose to have this rule at their discretion, so beginners can avoid having it, but even then, beginners love hammers so is it even that big of a deal?