[blml] Something understood.

[gesta at tiscali.co.uk]

Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
[following address discontinued:
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"Lord, forgive me if my need 
 Sometimes shapes a human creed."
                Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
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[Nige1]
[1] I agree with Grattan and Richard if they imply 
that promulgating corrections and clarifications 
through magazines, WBF codes of practice, 
director seminars, newsletters, conferences, appeals 
committee reports, unofficial summaries, minutes 
and the like is a poor substitute for completing and 
disambiguating the law-book itself. Certainly, players 
rely on the law-book for guidance
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+=+ What must be recognized is that before God we 
are all equal. It is true that in my initial approach to 
the 2007 Laws I made a determined effort to persuade 
colleagues that we should dig up the tree root and branch
and devise a wholly new Code of Laws. This could not be 
achieved because God and my friends decreed that all 
progress must be incremental rather than revolutionary. So 
we do not know to what extent in a new Code we might 
have obviated the need, or alternatively vastly increased 
the need, for reports, corrections, clarifications, codes of 
practice and the like. We spared ourselves the experience. 
        Or did we? I do not think one can expect to have 
effective tournament direction if one does not train TDs. 
On the other hand the player only needs to know enough 
of the rules in order to play, leaving aberrant action to the 
training and resources of the Director and to explanations
such as Law 10C1 requires.  Somewhere along the line 
the Regulating Authority has to take over and ensure the 
provision to players and to Directors of "exalted manna 
... something understood" for each according to his need. 
                           ~ Grattan ~   +=+