It's just occurred to me that gammons and the doubling cube can be made part of the game here without Fencer having to lift a finger. It would just require a bit of cooperation between the players.

All it takes is a gentleman's/lady's agreement for the loser of a gammon or doubled cube to resign as many subsequent games within a match as required. A dropped 1-cube would mean resignation of the current game and a 2-cube the following game as well, etc. A gammon loss would similarly mean resigning the next game.

Messages would be sent to signal intent to double and then acceptance or rejection. I don't yet know whether a note can be sent as part of the game record without a move being made. If not then the message would have to be sent via the envelope system. The receiving player would then send it back as a note on the next move so that it becomes part of the game record - makes it official in the case of dispute. But that's only a procedure that need be done if you wanted to be strict about it.

Dishonourable players could be posted here and as much hot air expanded over the issue as anyone likes and/or can stand.

One interesting angle from this method that sites with built-in doubling cannot offer - the ability to continue the game after dropping the cube and the chance to say "Phew!" or "Doh!" when the result becomes known. ;-)

Hope this is useful to those who like the cube. I'd certainly like to use this system for gammon wins.

:-))