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ruling in Madison

Posted By: mamabear
Date: Thursday, 10 September 2009, at 6:31 p.m.

In Response To: ruling in Madison (Jason Lee)

I don't see the need for a time penalty on either of these situations.

1. Illegal plays: If a player is making frequent and usually favorable illegal plays, it's time to call a monitor or take other actions, as other players in this thread have already proposed. If they make an occasional error, especially when short on time, it just shows they're human and the fact their opponent can condone a bad misread or mis-move is enough penalty already IMO.

2. Mishandling dice:
a. Premature pickups during the opponent's play should lead to a warning, followed by more drastic action than a time penalty if the behavior continues. There is no ambiguity in whether an opponent has punched the clock or not, and it's hard to imagine why anyone would ever pick up his opponent's dice prematurely at all.
b. Picking up the dice after one's own play is an entirely different story. This behavior is a habit from playing without a clock, and will tend to reassert itself from time to time with no nefarious intent on the perp's part. Suppose your opponent left a chou to play your match. He's very likely to pick up his own dice at least a couple of times during the first game of the match, until he gets acclimated to the new conditions. Then when he goes back to the chou later on, he'll probably find himself punching an imaginary clock now and then! (I've done both of these things.) But the main reason this action shouldn't be penalized unless it's done repeatedly or there has been debate following the action about what the dice showed--is that it isn't hurting the opponent one bit except in the cases just mentioned. Ordinarily, the offender's clock is still running while he picks up the dice, throws them in his cup, gives them a shake, says Oops!, dumps them back out, and finally punches his clock. One more thing: penalizing the premature pickup has the potential to become one more reason for the holdouts to object to clocks--why risk that when clock acceptance is growing so nicely?

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