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rules/ethics question: consciously playing your best

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Wednesday, 4 May 2011, at 5:39 p.m.

The recent thread about fair play:

http://www.bgonline.org/forums/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=95258

has persisted in questions about whether what transpired was even within the rules. Consider the following position:





White is Player 2

score: 0
pip: 91
1 point match
pip: 28
score: 0

Blue is Player 1
XGID=aCCBBA-a-----------cbbbbb-:0:0:-1:65:0:0:0:1:10
White to play 65

eXtreme Gammon Version: 1.21

Suppose Blue had a brain fart on the previous turn and bore off two checkers with a 6-2 roll when he could have played safe. White, feeling guilty but realizing what had happened, felt that within the rules he had no choice but to accept the (legal) move. But then his conscience is rewarded by this roll. Is he required to hit, by either rules or ethics?

A similar situation could (and surely has) arisen. For some altruistic reason or another (opponent is a novice, a very young person, a very old person, etc.), a player decides it would be in the best interests of those involved if the opponent won the current match. Without discussing this with the opponent (so there can be no accusation of collusion) the player makes plays which he himself believes are sub-optimal in order to affect the outcome of the match. Has he breached any rules or ethical principles?

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