Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] [auto] Wonko submits p1952

[Jeremy Cook <athena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:21:32AM -0500, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> 
> On Nov 23, 2004, at 11.31 PM, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:35:48 +0000 (GMT), automailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > <automailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Wonko has submitted a new proposal, p1952.
> >>
> >> ---------------------------------
> >> Proposal 1952/0: A few little fixes
> >> A Standard Proposal by Wonko
> >> Last modified on nweek 73, nday 6
> >>
> >> In r1900, The Board Game, replace the sentence "In order to perform a 
> >> Move, a player must include with it an accurate textual 
> >> representation of the board." with
> >> "In order to perform a Move, a player should include with it an 
> >> accurate textual representation of the board. If e does not, the 
> >> Minister of the Board may reject the Move at eir discretion, in which 
> >> case the Move fails and has no effect."
> >
> > The minister of the board can play too, right? Can't he make an
> > illegal move, then choose, at his discretion, to not reject it?
> 
> No - if a legal move is made, but the included board is wrong, then the 
> Minister of the Board may reject it. This doesn't mean that a move that 
> is illegal in and of itself can be made legal, it only means that if a 
> move would be legal but you drew the board wrong, it can be made legal.
> 
> And yes, I expect that the Minister of the Board will reject most 
> poorly-done moves. But if e overlooks something and then a dozen moves 
> are made after it, e can just pretend that the moves were all legal.

This is why we have the SOL.

Zarpint
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