Solitude Carrom Playing¶
During the first months of the year 2020 all humanity faced an impetuous healthcare emergency: probably for the first time in history, all human activities in all the populated areas of the planet have been overwhelmed, and while I'm writing nobody knows yet about how long it will last, let alone what the social and economic consequences will be in the long-term.
My thoughts go out to the families of the hundreds of thousands of victims and at the same time to all the people who face the pandemic by risking their own health for the sake of the others and jeopardizing the life of their loved ones.
Corona Carrom¶
Since basically the only defense we can apply is that of the social distancing and that all group play activities have been suspended indefinitely, Carrom players have adapted, inventing different competitive modes.
Stay at home and practice!
Rules of the game common to all systems¶
Your match must be recorded live on the appropriate Facebook
or other social media
group:
go to your appointed group
place your phone in a horizontal position and make sure your match is recorded horizontally
click on
Live Video
in the top of the pageclick
Start Video
when you are ready to play
Arrange the coins on the carrom board. During the game you must pocket all the black and white coins according to the rules of your specific tournament
Break and start to count the number of strokes that that you fail to pocket (miss). Count your misses with a counter, beans or any other system visible to all viewers
Follow the official rule of Due and Double Due:
- Due
take out 1 coin and place in the circle on the opposite side from you and add 1 to the count
- Double Due
take out 2 coins and place them horizontally touching each other on the opposite side of the circle without adding the count
First board finishes when you pocket all 18 coins and the queen: note the count of misses you made to finish the first board somewhere visible to all
Repeat the above test for the prescribed number boards
Eventually, visit the SoL page at the URL you received by email, insert the counters in the form and confirm it