Eliminate the UNDO

[mycroft]

I'm pretty lenient, but I'll reject undos in obvious discovery play situations (even if it really was inadvertent, once you realize your first play was wrong, you don't get it back).

 

If I allow an undo and find out it was a clear rethink, then I get a lot more cynical with that person, fast. I do the same in RL (as a player or a TD).

 

I also play by different rules in the club or in a tournament - but yeah, I'm a stickler for the rules at my table. OTOH, I don't even ask for recovery when I blow it (like yesterday calling for a heart rather than a high heart, making all the work I did to cater for a 4-1 break go whoosh), because whether it would be allowed or not, it wouldn't be legal (inadvertent is inadvertent, though - that's different, but if it was a brain blowout, even if it's a microsecond braino, then I eat it).

 

I *think* that people are a lot more comfortable with rules-stickers like me if a) it's always polite (and "I am sure there's no problem, I just want to be protected" rather than "He hesitated and she bid! She can't do that!", for instance) and b) it is absolutely clear that I hold myself and my partner to the same standard.

 

In another game I play, following the rules and the order of play is much more rigid, in fact impossibly so; most people are of the "okay, I'll let a little variance go by, except in situation A,B,C (basically too much information issues), but if after opponent asks and gets leniency, if he shuts me down when I ask for it, then A.2 (errors stick after it's too late to correct) and ASOP (sequence of play) to the letter." I think that's a decent way of playing any game.

 

Michael.