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ruling in Madison

Posted By: Gregg Cattanach
Date: Thursday, 10 September 2009, at 8:27 p.m.

In Response To: ruling in Madison (Tom Keith)

It is a matter of whether you believe the playing of (and the catching of) illegal moves should be part of the game.

It IS part of the game whether you want it to be or not. People WILL make illegal plays, inadvertently, (99% of the time, IMO) or not. The question is what should be the opponent's correct response? No penalty for the illegal player at all by letting him correct it every time (legal plays)? Or a potential penalty with the current rules. Which makes more sense?

I don't understand this. Are you saying, because you have a chance to increase your equity by not following the rules, a legal-plays rule would tempt you to cheat? What about the current rule? It rewards you every time you intentionally make an illegal play that your opponent doesn't catch. Surely that provides a much bigger ethical dilemma!

Wrong, wrong, wrong. An attempt to gain equity by an illegal play will almost always be caught and reversed. A successful attempt to 'not see' a bad illegal play will NEVER be caught and reversed with a 'legal plays' rule.

You could make the argument that avoiding (bad) illegal moves and catching your opponent's (good, for him) illegal moves adds to the challenge and skill of the game. As far as that goes, you're right. It takes a lot of concentration to catch both your and your opponent's illegal plays. But is this good? Not all "skillful" additions make for a better game.

You have it right, monitoring and choosing which illegal plays to reverse is part of the game. BTW, there is NOTHING in the current rules which prevents you from reversing all of your opponent's illegal plays, regardless of the equity impact.

A 'legal plays' rule doesn't get you off the hook for monitoring the opponent's play to check for legal plays, not one bit. It's actually more onerous, because now you are presumeable 'cheating' if you don't find and correct all of his illegal plays. (Or are presumed innocent? I can't keep track of what a kibitzer is supposed to presume; I've heard it both ways from the legal plays proponents.)

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