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Rule changes

Posted By: Phil simborg
Date: Monday, 27 July 2015, at 2:48 p.m.

In Response To: Rule changes (Steven E. Carey)

I have studied and written and re-written rules for many years for several different games and sports.

I don't believe any rule of any game should be changed unless it clearly improves the game in some way. And that improvement should be significant or it's just not worth the trouble to try to get the entire world to change. Why the entire world? Because splintered rules is confusing and bad for the game.

I don't see your recommendations meeting this criteria.

Also some of your changes would require changes in software and how we measure skill and PR and would require massive changes. So even if it were a real improvement to the game, it is a quite difficult one to institute.

Now, I am all for variations to be played privately and as side events and play many and have recommended many. And I have proposed rule changes to the game, but none that change the basic play of the game (except possibly legal moves which was certainly not my idea) but all of my (and Jeb and Chuck's) rules simply clarified ambiguous and poorly written rules to attempt to reduce misunderstandings and conflict

Messages In This Thread

• Rule changes
  Steven E. Carey -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 5:10 a.m.
  • Rule changes
    Trunky -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 9:21 a.m.
    • Rule changes
      RobertFontaine -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 10:55 a.m.
  • Rule changes
    TarHeelFan -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 10:54 a.m.
    • Rule changes
      Steven E. Carey -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 1:48 p.m.
      • Rule changes
        David Rennie -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 2:08 p.m.
  • Rule changes
    Tom Keith -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 1:35 p.m.
    • Rule changes
      niuniuch -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 3:14 p.m.
      • Challenge
        Tom Keith -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 3:54 p.m.
        • Challenge
          David Rennie -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 4:14 p.m.
          • Challenge
            Ray Kershaw -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 8:18 p.m.
            • Challenge
              David Rennie -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 8:32 p.m.
        • Here you are (guess where I found it :))
          niuniuch -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 4:54 p.m.
          • Here you are (guess where I found it :))
            Colin Owen -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 6:33 p.m.
        • Challenge
          Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 28 July 2015, at 4:32 p.m.
          • Challenge
            Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 28 July 2015, at 6:28 p.m.
            • Challenge
              Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 28 July 2015, at 9:13 p.m.
        • Challenge
          Marv Porten -- Thursday, 30 July 2015, at 5:17 p.m.
          • Challenge
            Bob Koca -- Saturday, 1 August 2015, at 1:27 p.m.
  • Rule changes
    Phil simborg -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 2:48 p.m.
  • Rule changes
    Casper Van der Tak -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 3:04 p.m.
  • Variations
    Timothy Chow -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 3:42 p.m.
  • Rule changes
    Keene -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 3:45 p.m.
  • Rule changes
    Colin Owen -- Monday, 27 July 2015, at 8:26 p.m.
    • Playing doublets once each instead of twice
      Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 28 July 2015, at 12:39 p.m.
      • Playing doublets once each instead of twice
        Colin Owen -- Tuesday, 28 July 2015, at 1:07 p.m.
  • Rule changes
    grant Hoffman -- Tuesday, 28 July 2015, at 9:20 p.m.