[blml] 25 something ?

[Bosman, Rob]

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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:55:40 +0000
From: Nigel <Guthrie at NTLworld.com>
Subject: Re: [blml] 25 something ?
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[ton kookiman]
  
Another strange case. We play teams competitions somewhere. For a long
range of years consisting of 28 boards. This year on page 43 (or
whatever) in small letters it says that 24 boards are played. A match is
played without realising this, so they play 28 boards. What should be
done?  I am mainly interested in a legal approach and less in a
pragmatic solution. The regulations do touch the problem of playing less
boards (which is possible) but (of course) not this case. 
 
[grattan endicott]
+=+ 1. Sack the committee/official who introduced this fundamental
change without announcing it in bold headlines.
        2. Order the match replayed. 
        3. Quote Hupfeld.
  ~ G ~       +=+
  
[nige1]
To sack a legal administrator for hiding significant changes in obscure
missives would create an uncomfortable precedent for WBFLC which has
steadfastly refused to incorporate such changes directly into a
web-published version of TFLB :)

In this case, IMO, you should first find out whether the same team was
wining after 24 boards as after 28. If so, I think you should let the
result stand. OK OK I realise that is just a pragmatic solution.

Rob Bosman
The obvious formal response IMHO should be that the match was supposed
to be over 24 boards in two half matches of 12 where they played 14, so
boards 13/14 and 27/28 should be cancelled as the regulations did not
require the teams to play these as part of their match, whatever players
do in their free time is their problem - but now you're going to tell me
that boards were shared between matches so that they did not start with
board 1, but with board 4 or alike? I was close to making the same
mistake in the matches in this competition I am responsible for, it was
only because I argued the published starting times of my matches (I
thought there was not enough time scheduled between two matches) that I
was made aware that we were supposed to play 24 rather than 28...
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