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Posted 2010-December-14, 20:03

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?
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Posted 2010-December-14, 20:36

A self-appointed despot and a derelict who has abandoned his TD duty to rule by the Laws.
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Posted 2010-December-14, 20:51

Thanks. "Derelict" works. "Despot" may be a bit too harsh for the person I have in mind.
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Posted 2010-December-14, 21:05

Can you give an example?
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Posted 2010-December-14, 21:16

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.
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Posted 2010-December-14, 21:53

View PostPhil, on 2010-December-14, 21:05, said:

Can you give an example?


Sadly it is far too common.
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Posted 2010-December-15, 02:14

View Postblackshoe, on 2010-December-14, 20:03, said:

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.
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Posted 2010-December-15, 07:48

View PostPhil, on 2010-December-14, 21:05, said:

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.
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Posted 2010-December-15, 11:07

That's even worse than my example.
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