Re: Question on player suicide

You must accept the moves as they are. Whatever Austria is doing is a
consequence of his interaction with the other players, and that's what the
game is all about. GMs are essentially adjudicators, they cannot interfere
with the course of the game, and certainly cannot disapprove of moves which
appear to give one power an "unfair advantage".

Cheers,
Deepak


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "weirddave00" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:37 AM
Subject: [CAT23-GM] Question on player suicide


> I am running a game for newbie Dip players, the Milan varient. We
> have reached Spring of 1904. I received the following orders from
> the Austrian player:
>
> A Budapest Supports A Serbia - Budapest
> A Bulgaria Supports A Constantinople - Bulgaria
> F Greece Supports F Ionian Sea - Greece
> A Trieste Supports A Venice - Trieste
> A Vienna Supports A Bohemia - Vienna
>
> Now, obviously, these orders are illegal. I emailed the player
> saying the orders made little sense, is that what he wanted to do. I
> got back a one word reply: "yes". All I can think is that maybe he
> is trying to commit game suicide. I have asked for an elaboration
> from the player, but have not received an answer yet.
>
> My problem is that to allow him to stop playing seriously will tilt
> the balance of the game drtastically, ( in Russia's favor, FTR.
> Turkey is locked in it's corner and is not a very experienced player
> at all and Italy is busy with France. Germany is balanced to the
> west ) which isn't fair to the other players. Does anyone have any
> advice on what to do?
>
> Weirddave
>
>