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Posted By: Steve Mellen
Date: Friday, 23 October 2009, at 8:15 p.m.

In Response To: Rules... (Rich Munitz)

The more complex a given set of rules may be, the less equitable it is to presume that every player is familiar with the rules and all their myriad interpretations in their entirety.

You can have the greatest rulebook in the world, but it's scant consolation when someone shows up to their first tournament, gets victimized by an angle-shooter who knows paragraph 34a of the rulebook better than they do, and never plays again. Speaking as someone who earns a living solely by virtue of endless volumes of laws and judicial interpretations, it's always important to remember that there's a greater good to be served.

Obviously the rules should attempt to cover every common situation. But for those once in a blue moon type scenarios, I'm just as happy to have a fair PROCESS as I would be to have a voluminous rulebook that covers my situation in a footnote on page 634. What I mean by a fair process is that a fair and experienced director is going to make a judgment call (and if I didn't think he/she was fair, why am I playing in the tournament), and the possibility of an appeals committee if the ruling somehow veers off into left field. There's nothing really wrong with that solution, and frankly it beats the heck out of trying to write a code of laws that would make Hammurabi jealous.

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