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That seems more like a complaint about the game itself, it can't really be cheating if there's no rule against it nor anybody hiding it. It was also part of the
by DSMan195276 5y ago
That seems more like a complaint about the game itself, it can't really be cheating if there's no rule against it nor anybody hiding it. It was also part of the game to try an influence when the adjournment will happen to give yourself a more favorable position to analyze (and also determine who has to seal the last move).
FWIW adjournment never really happens anymore, largely because computers just make the analysis too easy and time controls are shorter. And I do agree that it does ruin a certain aspect of the game, but I don't think that makes it cheating, it was just a different time.
- mcguire 5y agoOnce upon a time in a Diplomacy tournament, two players locked a third into a bathroom, forcing the third player to miss a turn. The referee ruled that was acceptable, although I think later tournaments forbid that sort of thing.
- LanceH 5y agoLocking someone in a bathroom is false imprisonment and not really a clever way of playing the game. If this were a tournament it would be easy enough to get the referee's ruling reversed by threatening arrest of the players guilty of doing it. This, of course, would be blackmail and also illegal -- but much more in the spirit of the game.
- DSMan195276 5y agoI kinda get your analogy (assuming you were trying to make one), but I think that example is fundamentally different. With adjournment everybody already knew how it worked before the game even started, there was no surprise "technically not against the rules" kind of thing.