[blml] Pointing out who won the trick

[Eric Landau]

At 10:36 AM 10/10/06, Ed wrote:

>On Oct 10, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Eric Landau wrote:
>
> > I'll let the legal eagles thrash out the theory, but I can tell you
> > this:  Where I play, any of those remarks would be perfectly
> > acceptable
> > and cause no comment or action by the opponents.  Anyone who called
> > the
> > director to complain about such actions would be considered by the
> > vast
> > majority of the players to be inappropriately disrupting the game.
>
>Heh. Conflicting imperatives. On the one hand, if we want folks to
>keep playing this game, we don't want to disrupt too much their long
>cherished habits in playing. On the other hand, we want the game to
>be played by its rules, and I think we all here accept that most
>players are ignorant of most of the rules - so their long cherished
>habits, particularly in this case, may or may not be technically
>legal. If they're not, then either we educate the players about the
>rules and try to get them to change their habits, or we change the
>rules to make those habits legal. I'm not gonna argue about which
>method is "right", but I'll note that while the second method is
>certainly easier, I don't like it much. It feels too much like
>surrendering. And with a ten year (give or take) wait between law
>revisions, you're going to have a problem making sure everyone is on
>the same page if you take the "change the law" road.

To be honest, I intended that first clause as somewhat sarcastic (I 
confess to being smilie-challenged).  I really can't imagine why any of 
those actions should be illegal, or why anyone would want or expect 
them to be.


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