Hrqls: As a humble pawn, I hate taking on a rook, since I can only move forwards!
(I have pledged to become a rook again when a proper auto-pass system is implemented for Backgammon, by the way!) But whether a pawn, bishop, rook, queen or king. six years for one tournament is WAY too long, and I was (humbly) trying to suggest a way that hung-up tournaments might be allowed to proceed a bit more quickly. I am no longer a young man, but I would really like to try to find a way ro finish a tournament which I entered when I WAS a young man.