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USBGF Legal Moves Policy

Posted By: Bob Koca
Date: Tuesday, 22 April 2014, at 2:51 a.m.

In Response To: USBGF Legal Moves Policy (Bill Riles)

"If a game clock is in use and an Illegal Move is noticed:

1.Before the offending player has ended his turn: The clock shall remain running (but may be stopped to discuss the facts);

2.After the offending player has ended his turn: The clock shall be stopped, the position shall be reset, the offending player’s clock shall be restarted and the delay time allowed to run out. A legal move shall then be made."

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If someone makes an illegal move with one second left it is essentially going to be a time out. Will there be another Herb situation where someone is vilified by playing by the rules if that is claimed?

If there is not just a few seconds left there is hardly any point to that rule. Suppose the player was going to use the full delay time to think anyways. Then it is literally no penalty and in fact the player got some extra think time due to the illegal play and clock hitting. If the player decides on a move within the delay then it at most a one or two second penalty and the player also got the benefit of some extra delay time (the delay used before the illegal play and then a new full 12 second delay).

Weird. There is a penalty is super tremendous with one or two seconds pool time but usually is hardly anything at all.

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