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Following rules does not necessarily end in the most moral decision

Posted By: Michael Petch
Date: Friday, 13 May 2011, at 3:21 a.m.

In Response To: Fairplay award goes to - Arda Findikoglu (Mislav Kovacic)

- First off I'd like to say that I am a stickler for the rules and rules being enforced uniformly and fairly by the hosts

- I agree with those who would like to create a more concrete set of rules to reduce the ambiguity at an event. This may not be easy if the people setting the rules are a diverse and opinionated group.

- I would have done the same thing as Arda even if I ended up losing money from it.

- If a tournament explicitly has a rule that says "All legal plays must stand" (for example) I would still choose to break the rule if my conscience told me that it was the right thing to do. I'd also accept the decision of a director to call me out and or penalize me for breaking that rule.

I will give an example of a situation that happened to me last year. I was in an event and ended up with this position:

The score (after 0 games) is: playerX 10, mpetch 10 (match to 11 points, post-Crawford play)

Move number 3: playerX to play 63

playerX7


1X ' ' ' '1X ' ' ' ' ' '

' '1O ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '

mpetch3

Position ID: BAAABAEAAAAAAA Match ID: MAFvAaAAUAAA

PlayerX has two legal choices here. One is a Match win and the other is a match loss. This happened Online and the person accidentally played the 3 first and the 6 after. It was now my turn - It was clearly a mistake and I wasn't going accept a match win here. I don't care if this was live for money, or I could get dq'ed by a host. If a rule exists that says I have to allow a legal play to stand, I'd break the rule because at the end of the day I wouldn't have guilty conscience over it. People could accuse me of collusion etc etc. They'd have to prove their claim.

The host may say "I violated the rules" and I must accept the win. If this happened in a money position I'd abide by the host decision, but I don't have the guilty conscience anymore for doing the right thing. I'd probably end up (after the event) giving a portion of my overall winnings to my opponent (amount would depend on the circumstances). I have been faced with real life choices like this but not related to backgammon.

The host may say that I forfeit my right to continue for violating the rule, or sanction me by not allowing me to return to their event in the future, or give me a warning. I'd accept that too. Again, I would not have a guilty conscience. If my heart believes something is truly right then forget the rules and accept the consequences if you believe in it.

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