blackshoe Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 A person knows the rules of a game, and willfully disregards them. If this person is a player, you call him a cheat. What if he's a director? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachy Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 A self-appointed despot and a derelict who has abandoned his TD duty to rule by the Laws. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted December 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Thanks. "Derelict" works. "Despot" may be a bit too harsh for the person I have in mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Can you give an example? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted December 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 It was a situation where the EW pair ahead of us was a full board behind when they finally left the table. The TD told us we'd get a late play (hi, David :)) but the NS pair packed up the table and left immediately they finished their last board. I reported this to the TD, and she said "you'll get 'not played' then." When I objected to "not played" on the grounds it's illegal, I was told "I don't care. Report me." :( I don't really give a damn what score we end up with, that's not the point. The TD is supposed to follow the laws. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cascade Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Can you give an example? Sadly it is far too common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMB1 Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 A person knows the rules of a game, and willfully disregards them. If this person is a player, you call him a cheat. What if he's a director?A player/cheat does it to win (at bridge). What is the motivation for a law-disregarding director? If it is power, influence, money (winning at life?), then he is corrupt. I can not immediately work out what is the noun for "one who is corrupt". "pervert" is a strong word with sufficiently negative connotations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joostb1 Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 Can you give an example?Here is another one. A beginner has 7 hearts and opens 3H, but has 19 HCP. His LHO, who happens to be the director, thinks this is a preempt, bids too and gets into some impossible contract and has a terrible score. He then calls his opponent a cheat, says that he is an unethical player and changes the result on the game in G+/G-. The flabbergasted opponent afterwards consults his teacher whether this was all right, since he was rather shocked by being called names. A despot? Surely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted December 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 That's even worse than my example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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