playBunny: Lolol re "Serious about the tricky one". Pgt is right, of course. Having legally taken the last piece off with the higher dice it is then impossible to use the other value.

Q1: Do you agree that the procedure of play at Backgammon should be :
- Making a move
- Investigating if it is legal
- Investigating if this move ends the game
A1: YES

Q2: Do you agree that the game SHOULD end with a legal move?
A2: YES

Q3: Do you agree that after 2-off the move ends illegally?
A3: YES

The above conversation implies that 2-off is an illegal move.......

So where do you have a disagreement? I guess it's on the question's 1 procedure that
should be according to you:
- Making a move
- Investigating if this move ends the game and then everything else stops and we have a winner
- Investigating if it is legal


Now don't you see that the second procedure is not so logical...........?!?!?!?