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Nordic Open Ruling in Quarterfinals -- O'Laughlin vs. Mitrelis

Posted By: Michael Klein
Date: Monday, 28 March 2016, at 2:52 a.m.

In Response To: Nordic Open Ruling in Quarterfinals -- O'Laughlin vs. Mitrelis (Jason Lee)

The ruling is clearly correct. One simply cannot move the opponent’s checkers. Mitrelis should have paused the clock and asked Ed to make a legal play.

But I don’t think anyone should say it was cheating. If anything it would only be consistent to say the same about the player who actually tried to make the illegal play. And I don’t think either player had bad intentions in this case.

I can also understand Mitrelis' frustration if an opponent makes several illegal plays at a crucial time of the match. There was a situation just before where Ed had a checker on each the 24 and 23 point and proceeded to make the 21 point with a 3 1.

Mitrelis also “corrected” this play and moved Ed’s checkers back to where they were, telling him that he had rolled a 3 1 and not a 3 2. I believe it still resulted in an illegal play as Ed covered a blot on the 10 point with his three but forgot to play the 1.

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