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Ethics Revised

Posted By: Stick
Date: Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 3:40 a.m.

In Response To: Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question (Chuck Bower)

Since some ppl see these things as unethical I thought I'd show how unethical I apparently am.

1) Discussing already completed situations from this match (and/or consulting a bot about these situations),

I'm a backgammon addict, I collect tons of positions over the weekend, I run some forums somewhere on the internet and have a lot to keep up on. I'm also dead interested in interesting positions. If I have a chance before I leave for dinner or after I get back from dinner I will put the positions in GNU, analyze them, save them, and start the rollouts if I have no others running.

2) Discussing the current score and its implications

I go out to dinner with people, they ask how I'm doing, I answer I'm in my second match of the main and I'm up -2a -4a (or w/e match score you want to discuss) and a discussion starts. Want me to clasp my hands over my ears? Should I not have said the score of my match at all?

3) Discussing your opponent's BG playing characteristics

A lot of times before ppl start their matches and they see they're paired up with Player Y and they know nothing about Player Y they'll ask someone if they know anything about their game. I assume that's fine since it's right before the match??

4) Consulting a match equity table?

I will tell you many times over dinner breaks I've consulted tons of shit. I have no idea how many times I was actually in the middle of a match, but it wouldn't have crossed my mind not to. I need a constant refresher course on everything I try to jam in my teeny tiny brain. Whether it's a MET, replies, bearoff cubes, should I not allowed to be able to consult anything backgammon related?

I also often bring a backgammon book with me to read on my down time during a tournament, if I happen to break in the middle of my match does this mean I shouldn't be reading the book during my dinner break?

The short of it is you can't police it so why worry about it. The long of it is I do them all so perhaps I'm the most unethical player out there.

Stick

Messages In This Thread

• Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
  Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 7 January 2009, at 7:15 p.m.
  • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
    neilkaz -- Wednesday, 7 January 2009, at 7:27 p.m.
    • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
      Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 7 January 2009, at 10:27 p.m.
  • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
    Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 7 January 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
  • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
    Caryl Stephanson -- Wednesday, 7 January 2009, at 8:37 p.m.
  • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
    Stick -- Wednesday, 7 January 2009, at 8:42 p.m.
    • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
      David Rockwell -- Wednesday, 7 January 2009, at 11:12 p.m.
  • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
    David -- Wednesday, 7 January 2009, at 9:45 p.m.
    • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
      Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 7 January 2009, at 10:29 p.m.
  • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
    stw672 -- Wednesday, 7 January 2009, at 9:58 p.m.
  • ethics question, Part II
    Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 7 January 2009, at 10:23 p.m.
    • ethics question, Part II
      Mike Main -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 2:31 a.m.
      • ethics question, Part II
        Marty Storer -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 8:48 p.m.
  • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
    Steve Mellen -- Wednesday, 7 January 2009, at 11:57 p.m.
    • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
      Marty Storer -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 8:33 p.m.
  • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
    Mike Main -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 2:14 a.m.
  • Ethics Revised
    Stick -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 3:40 a.m.
    • Ethics Revised
      Christian Munk-Christensen -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 9:35 a.m.
      • Ethics Revised
        Stick -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 9:42 a.m.
      • Ethics Revised
        Jason Lee -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 12:28 p.m.
    • Ethics Revised
      neilkaz -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 6:00 p.m.
      • Ethics Revised
        Marty Storer -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 8:25 p.m.
        • Ethics Revised
          neilkaz -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 9:25 p.m.
          • Ethics Revised
            Marty Storer -- Friday, 9 January 2009, at 1:59 p.m.
        • Ethics Revised
          Bill Riles -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 10:07 p.m.
      • Ethics Revised
        Marty Storer -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 8:43 p.m.
        • Ethics Revised
          neilkaz -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 9:29 p.m.
          • Ethics Revised
            Marty Storer -- Friday, 9 January 2009, at 1:49 p.m.
            • Ethics Revised
              Stick -- Friday, 9 January 2009, at 1:59 p.m.
              • Ethics Revised
                Marty Storer -- Friday, 9 January 2009, at 2:16 p.m.
                • Ethics Revised
                  Tom Keith -- Friday, 9 January 2009, at 6:07 p.m.
                  • Ethics Revised
                    Marty Storer -- Friday, 9 January 2009, at 7:43 p.m.
    • Ethics Revised
      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Saturday, 10 January 2009, at 4:43 p.m.
  • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
    Marty Storer -- Thursday, 8 January 2009, at 3:04 p.m.
  • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
    Perry Gartner -- Saturday, 10 January 2009, at 1:33 p.m.
    • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
      Jason Lee -- Saturday, 10 January 2009, at 6:28 p.m.
      • Speaking of match breaks -- ethics question
        Perry Gartner -- Sunday, 11 January 2009, at 1:22 a.m.
  • Final thoughts (if you aren't already sick of this topic)
    Chuck Bower -- Saturday, 10 January 2009, at 5:16 p.m.