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ruling in the Nordic Open SJ

Posted By: Robert Wachtel
Date: Saturday, 11 April 2015, at 9:50 a.m.

In Response To: ruling in the Nordic Open SJ (christian munk-christensen)

Amazingly, after all the posts that have been made on this issue, I find that there is a significant discrepancy as to what the facts are!

Who asked for the ruling?

According to Christian, who initiated this thread, it was Victor; "While B is away, player A realizes that player B still needs 1 point to reach 11.Player A then asks for a ruling."

But according to Jason,"After reporting the match I went up to my room and was about to study the recube to 4 and my recube to 8. Looking at my pictures on my phone of the position as I was about to key it into XG, I realized that after 8 points I only had 10 points and that Victor had resigned early. I still did not know if he done so in error or in frustration at his ill luck.

I then instantly went back downstairs to the tournament room and asked Julie to see Steen to make a ruling. The idea that Victor had to ask for the ruling or that I tried to conceal the episode is absurd."

For some reason, none of the commentators here (including Victor, including Steen) has tried to resolve this factual discrepancy.

But the discrepancy is quite relevant to what everybody is stressing over, which we might call the morality question.

To wit: if it was Jason who asked for the ruling, how can his action be construed as "taking a shot"? Surely, if he had wanted to take a shot he would have simply said nothing. Again, factually speaking, no one except Christian has told us that Victor had any idea up to that point that he had erroneously resigned. So if Victor had said nothing, and no one was the wiser, it is hard to see Jason's behavior as anything but ethical. Once he realized that he had been awarded the match via a premature resignation, he "immediately" sought out the TD for a ruling. Steen made the ruling, and (nobody disputes this) Jason accepted it without asking for an appeal

Yes, he could have, as some posters have observed, gone the extra mile: sought out Victor, told him that he had made a mistake, and insisted that the match continue. That course of action would have been more courteous, and certainly more private. But if it is a fact that it was Jason (and not Victor) who discovered that mistake, his conduct was hardly that of a "bad actor."

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