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

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

For example, I illegally place a penny, then a bunch of legal moves are 
made with board diagrams that include my penny. Technically, none of 
the moves after my penny are legal, because I couldn't really have made 
that penny; but the Minister of the Board might, for the sake of ease, 
simply remove the illegal penny but let the later moves through.

--
Wonko

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    - Elvis Presley

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