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| Written by P B |
| Monday, 26 July 2010 17:44 |
| I like Norbert's approach of discussing the specific cases and why or why not they can cause problems; that's what can bring to some sensible rules. All those are definitely good points. Norbert, you mention when you should be able to change a declaration. Some rules (which I agree with) say that you can do that as long as no tiles have been exposed. So if you say chi and you expose any tile, then you're stuck with it. But if you say chi, and then before showing your tiles realize you don't want/can't do it, it's OK to say so; I think at most, you've given some info to your opponents about what tiles you might hold. Could that be the rule, maybe adding "don't expose your tiles if somebody goes out, until his/her hand has been assessed"? That would take care of the valid scenario you're mentioning. You make a very good point about the uneven amount of "help" that different people might get if we allow "helping". However, I don't think you can completely avoid it anywyay. Say I have two people who look like they're ready, and a choice of two tiles for a discard, one of which could help one player and the other one which would help the other. If I have to take a risk, wouldn't I risk in favour of the nicer player? Also, if the general attitude is that you should be helpful in some circumstances, I find it hard to believe that all three other players would "omit" to help. So if you're scoring your hand, as in Ian's example, and score yourself forgetting you're East, is it really expected that none of the other players will notice the error? My take is that it's highly unlikely, unless of course they want to take advantage of the mistake (which is exactly the attitude Ian suggests it would be good to eradicate). I'm not sure that Ian (or I) advocates "helping each other whenever possible). I don't think anybody would want people to warn about dangerous discards, or comment on the game itself. But for instance I do dislike not to be able to point to South that he just missed picking up his tile, since that seems a not too uncommon mistake (especially if the person is still ironing out the scoring while the others are rushing to start the new game, and therefore is a bit distracted while providing a service to the other players, just to quote a real case. |
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