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Exploiting LM rules?!
Posted By: Colin Owen In Response To: Exploiting LM rules?! (Martin)
Date: Friday, 10 June 2016, at 2:21 p.m.
A very pertinent question posed by Martin which, along with reading the responses to it thus far, has me rethinking what the correct response might have been in the situation that actually occurred recently.
Firstly, of course, neither side should be able to exploit such a situation. If the player with the closed board suddenly questions the validity of an anti-joker he has finally (illegally) rolled, his argument should be thrown out. Likewise, the closed out player who, it is reasonably determined, has acquiesced to the illegal re-rolling and moving should not then be able to argue for the annulment of any joker rolls by his opponent.
I am leaning to the view that, whatever rolls and moves were allowed to occur in such a game by both players should stand; there should be no rewinding of moves. The time-out should not automatically stand, however. The TD should, upon consultation with the players and any kibitzers, determine what approximate time would likely have been on the closed board players clock, had he been receiving a delay setting, and reset the clock to this. The game should then continue from there.
Trying to recreate an original position, or doing so only from a point where it can be recreated with a higher degree of probability is not very satisfactory, particularly when it is clear that both players were at fault in allowing the situation to happen. The time-out can be rescinded - unless, of course, the TD is satisfied that the closed board player took so long over one or more plays that he would have timed out even with the delay settings.
If, alternatively, no time-out occurred in such a situation, but the game simply concluded in one players favour, then the TD could allow the result to stand.
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