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lynch law in Chicago?

Posted By: AP
Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2016, at 10:46 p.m.

In Response To: lynch law in Chicago? (Michel Lamote)

I am sorry for your situation. This whole case is yet another tragic example of the unintended negative consequences of the ‘legal moves’ rule. Given the ‘legal moves’ rule as it’s currently written (unjust as I feel that it is) and the facts of the case, I think the Director had no choice but to rule against you…therefore to me I don’t feel this case should be classified as ‘lynch law’.

That said, the ‘legal moves’ rule as it currently stands is obviously untenable. The supposed downside to ‘non-legal moves’ was that players’ may be left with a bad feeling after making a mistaken bone-headed play themselves. After seeing so many cases of incidents between two players acting with no malicious intent (and yes, I think your case clearly falls into that category) cause so much pain, the downside of ‘legal moves’ seems far worse. On top of that, it’s virtually unenforceable. What would have happened if you were a dishonest player that claimed you didn’t notice the opponent clock winding down until it was too late?

It seems that the ‘non-legal moves’ camp is currently a tiny minority…maybe this will change as the body-count continues to rise. At a minimum, the ‘legal moves’ rules must be modified to include penalties (increasing in severity with repeated infractions), so that the fair player who is forced to exert his own time and energy to police his opponent’s play is compensated in some way.

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