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6 RULES
RULES
EXPLAINED
EXPLAINED
This image was
made by Devon’s
Chief Umpire Ken
Griffiths many years

ago. I only stumbled
on it recently and it is
really good at ex-
plaining the Rule.
Ken thankfully
agreed that the
image could be re-
produced in the mag-
azine and I hope it

makes the rule eas-
ier to understand?
To make it work
for Triples ignore the
Thirds and go
straight from sec-
onds to Skips.
This was the
kind of thing I was
advocating that the
ESMBA should in-

clude in the rule
book going back cer-
tainly as far as Ken’s
diagramme.
There aren’t
many rules that re-
quire such dia-
gramme’s but there
are probably other

rules that could do
with some kind of
written explanation
in the rule book.
Not in an appendix but actually in or under the rules in question, perhaps
then some of the rules will sink in, or not as the case may be. Feel free to ask
about any rule that you think requires some kind of further explanation and it
will be included in the magazine. I have a Bee in my Bonnet about one rule
but more on that later - you first.