Re: Equity, some questions

Jeff Easterson
> Thanks for the input; much more than I had expected.
[Sven Pran] 
What must be remembered is that the laws seldom (if ever) address just one
specific circumstance but must cater for most (all?) possible relevant
situations.

When two pairs play a board not scheduled for them in a particular round the
possible circumstances include:
Neither, one or both pair(s) is/are fully, partially or not at all at fault.
(6 different possibilities)
Neither, one or both pair(s) has/have already played that board earlier
during the event according to schedule or contrary to schedule. (6 different
possibilities)
Neither, one or both pair(s) is/are not scheduled to play that board at all
during the event (for instance because of a scheduled sit-out). (3 different
possibilities)
The two pairs manage or do not manage to play the board that was scheduled
for them. (2 different possibilities)

As these possibilities do not appear to me as being mutually exclusive this
means that we have a total of 216 different possibilities to be catered for.
I think we must accept that adapting specialized rectifications for each of
these possibilities can only result in too complicated and useless laws. My
experience is that the existing laws are quite satisfactory here. 
 
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