Re: The can of worms (Measuring)

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 19:47:39 +0100, "Paul Radford"
<paulradford@innotts.co.uk>
wrote:

>"Pre-measuring of any and all distances will be allowed. Judges reserve
the
>right to intercede at any table where they believe that unnessecary
time
>wasting is going on through measuring. Interceding will range from a
verbal
>warning to the banning of pre-measurment by the offending player in the
most
>extreme cases."

At GenCon in Milwaukee we don't allow pre-measuring. Personally, I'd
allow it,
but I'm not a fanatic about it. However, we do allow referees to be
called in
for controversial measuring. This is usually in the case of someone
doing
questionable moves, and such. So, with that in mind, you don't need to
ban
someone, just let a referee do all the pre-measuring if he thinks
someone is
abusing the system.

It's rarely worth anyone's while to abuse pre-measuring by taking more
time.
If you're in the lead, you can try to hold out before the time limit is
up, I
suppose. But I find the game changes so quickly that anyone trying to
slow the
game deliberately might end up losing in the end. 

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@interlog.com
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