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Honest / Bizarre Misplays

Posted By: Colin Owen
Date: Monday, 18 February 2019, at 4:08 a.m.

In Response To: Honest / Bizarre Misplays (Albert Steg)

"Please start a different thread if you want to talk about rules changes." A.S.

You're safe there: no one talks about rules changes here anymore because more than one player has threatened to give up the game if they see any more threads on the subject! Don't they ever switch channels? Haven't they heard of the 'off' button? lol ikm!

FYI no one in their right mind really wants touch move; it would be a can of worms in our game. (To amuse myself I once entitled a message 'Touch Move', even though I didn't actually advocate it in the post. Still got slagged off for advocating 'touch moves' though!) But don't tell me that, in tournament bg - even masters/top flight events - it's only right and proper that we can deliberately move one or more chequers, position them on a legal point, let go of them... and then take them back. That's BS!

It IS weird that, though we can't make written calculations - I guess because 'we should be able to do it in our heads' - we CAN make tentative moves, even though this causes all kinds of shit. I'm scratching my head. (If the wrong players have strayed onto this post, please, please don't give up the game you love!)

Back to the gist of your post, I guess an honest player makes an illegal play once every few hundred moves, on the average. This may vary from player to player by an awful lot, like some players less than 1/1000 during their lifetime and others more than 1/100, depending partly on how their approach to the game stands on the careful - slovenly scale. But most of them favour the player making them, and I'm sure that includes my own. This is probably rarely due to deliberate cheating - and I did specify honest players anyway - but rather because we sometimes see what we want to see. That is, our unconscious tricks our conscious mind into seeing a different number of spots on the die, or counting the wrong number of pips moved, and this generally favours us.

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