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An ethics issue raised in Paris?
Posted By: Phil Simborg In Response To: An ethics issue raised in Paris? (Steen Grønbech)
Date: Friday, 6 November 2009, at 12:34 p.m.
Steen: Let's define terms and be sure we are truly on the same page.
The Danish rules, as you have presented them, does allow illegal moves in that, if discovered, the opponent has the option of accepting the move or making the player correct the error.
The rules I advocate are the ones we use in our Chicago Chouette (and most money games around the US):
If a player makes an illegal move and either player discovers it, or even if a spectator sees it and points it out, the move must be corrected. If the Player A makes an illegal move and Player B rolls and then the illegal move is identified, then Player A must correct his play to any legal move he desires, however, Player B must roll over.
If Player A makes an illegal move, Player B rolls, moves, and picks up his dice, and then an illegal move was discovered, the illegal move stands.
I, and many others in the Open Division, believe that the Chicago rule is fairer and prevents all kinds of problems, and many of us agree to apply this rule when we sit down to play in tournaments.
By the way, we do not believe our agreement changes or violates the rules of the game, as the rules do give us the option to require moves to be legal, and we are simply both agreeing that we will always invoke that option. We also believe it would be better to see the rule changed in this manner instead of having to make this "gentleman's agreement," as problems could arise if one of the players "forgets" that this agreement was made. Naturally, if I sit down with someone who does not wish to agree to this caveat, or I sit down with someone I may not completely trust to live up to this agreement, I will simply go along with the written tournament rules and options.
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