Thread: look back rule
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Old Thu Oct 26, 2006, 06:19pm
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Originally Posted by mcrowder
Fair enough - my bad!

I now think, instead, that the rule is worded poorly. They are not really committed to a base - technically they are committed to either run forward or run backward without stopping. Nothing says (especially in the forward cases) that they can't continue running. I guess I'm saying that the word "committed" here is misleading.

But yeah - I'm wrong as to whether that word appears on the rule. My apologies.
Good point, but I would like to challenge you/anyone to create wording that the rules makers, interpreters, etc. can't screw up, without having a full page POE on the subject.

How about something with advance/retreat as a viewpoint?
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