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clock "ETHICS"
Posted By: mamabear In Response To: clock "ETHICS" (mfic)
Date: Tuesday, 3 March 2009, at 2:08 p.m.
Good idea making the expected procedure clear in potentially fuzzy, but likely recurring, clock situations.
Some people in the thread have brought up the matter of personal responsibility, but I don't see how these guidelines remove much of the need for that. They cover errors of momentary inattentiveness rather than overall poor management of one's time.
I wouldn't think it was the least bit unethical for someone playing a slow opponent to refuse to double in situations where they would do so in an unclocked match, preferring instead to lengthen the match by turning it into a series of one-pointers. After all, their opponent has a great counterstrategy available: speed up, and turn the opponent's nondoubles into equity gains for himself! Similarly, if someone goes into massive backgames against a slow opponent when a simple and normal strategy would have given him a substantial advantage, again the slowpoke can use the strategy of picking up the pace and probably gaining back far more than whatever equity tailings he was finding with his longer deliberations.
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