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What to do about this what-a-to-do?
Posted By: MaX In Response To: What to do about this what-a-to-do? (phil Simborg)
Date: Monday, 6 July 2009, at 3:08 p.m.
Issue is that, if white were arguing that blck has tolerated fast rolling before, black would (most likely) say it is not true.
Black behavior sucks big time, but hey, this happens every day in courts, where rapers and murderers do not go to jail because a silly piece of paper has been stamped in blue instead of in red.
White can blame himself for fast rolling (and black for unfair behavior). Black can get away with this one, but I doubt he will have many friends in the audience (surely not me).
I remember a somehow similar case: 2 players are well into a match to 17 points, 7away 5away, the player 7aw holding a cube at 2 and facing serious gammon chances. All of a suddent, somebody in the audience says that theya re wrong and that the match is not to 17 points but to 15 (5aw 3aw). The player 7aw, risking to lose the match in this game, asks for a restart of the game or of the entire match (silly the last one), arguing that if the match was to 15 he wouldn't have taken the 2 cube. The other says no, we go on to 15.
What to do here ? Gentleman solution is: both players (and TD) accept to have this match played to 17, as implicitly agreed by two players at match start. But what if one player don't want this, saying that it is stated in the rules that match is to 15 ?
Wrong match length is not contemplated in the rules, hence I go with the basics: they have to play to 15. Too bad for the guy 7aw, but hey, it was his fault ...
MaX.
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