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From: Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:52:45 -0500
Local: Mon, Nov 12 2012 3:52 pm
Subject: Re: How should this be scored?
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<blackshoe-2B2565.14012912112...@news.eternal-september.org>, Ed Reppert <blacks...@mac.com> wrote: > The TD (via the clock, perhaps) has determined that you have But if you don't play the board, you're following the director's > insufficient time to play the board. He has the power (and duty) to > "ensure the orderly progress of the game" (Law 81C1). In exercising this > power and duty, he has the power to "require, postpone, or cancel the > play of a board" (Law 82B2). Granted the latter law is contingent on an > irregularity having occurred. What is an irregularity? It is "a > departure from correct procedure". It is correct procedure to follow the > instructions of the TD. "Don't start any new boards" is an instruction > of the TD (even if it comes from the clock). So the director has > instructed you not to play a board. Correct procedure is to follow that > instruction. instructions, so there has been no irregularity. Therefore, 82B2 doesn't apply, and he can't postpone play of the board. It seems like a Catch-22: To postpone the board, there has to be an > Now, at the end of the session, the director may allow you But since there was no irregularity in the first place, 82B2 never > to play the board, in which case it is scored normally (note also that, > in law, in this case, the round for which this board was originally > scheduled does not end until you finish playing the board). If the TD > decides not to allow you to play the board, then you will not have > played a board which you were scheduled to play. That is an > irregularity. Law 8B2 applies. Law 12A2 instructs the director to award > an artificial adjusted score. applied, so the director can't postpone or cancel the board. -- You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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