The grudge
It sounds pretty good, but unfortunately @ksmckay slips to and fro.
What I understand @ksmckay has had a thorn to my side since when I started to play in this league. He has entered quite many of my game threads to spew his opinion about what a low creature I am (although one time he actually supported my case, which I think was big of him even though it was also objectively correct).
The story is that we’ve played one game during L19. Since then he heavily resents me. The game took place when I was new to both the league and A&A in general. He’s a great player and without much trouble got into a winning position.
Since I didn’t have that much experience with the game and also come from the chess scene, I wanted to play on for too long. He complained now and then during the game that I didn’t stand a chance and should give up. However, I still wanted to explore the position and try to exhaust all possibilities.
In chess this is a pretty common situation and it’s very bad manners to complain on an opponent for being slow or not giving up. It’s actually against the rules to do so. As a player you are free to play for as long or slow as you please if you have time left on the clock and have not yet been mated. It’s not even a gentleman’s agreement, but clearly stated in the rules.
Sure, that’s chess, but I think it’s enlightening to clarify the cultural context. I also feel that a similar approach suits very well here with A&A.
@ksmckay accuses me of being ridiculous and shameful, but as a riposte I conclude that he himself showed very bad manners during our first and maybe only game. He also repeatedly ridicule himself when upholding this grudge and time and again spends efforts to shame me in the public space. I do find this behaviour of his rather offensive.
Fair play
I fully understand @Pejon_88’s surprise and disappointment regarding my decision concerning the edit in z113, but I don’t agree with it being neither bad sportmanship nor unfair play.
We have tons of allowed edits between ourselves. It’s not particularly fair to bring out one example to try to prove a point, when there are hundreds of others contradicting that point. I’ve done plenty of similar allowances. In another one of our games (which I miserably lost) I pointed out a poor placement of expensive fleet which would’ve been obliterated by an italian-german double-attack and allowed him to change his position during my Italy.
As I’ve said earlier I don’t have a particular edit policy, like some other players have. I’m usually very liberal and forgiving, but look upon every situation on its own merits. I know several other top ranking players that have more or less the same outlook. One good example is @axis-dominion who is usually very lenient, but in a game the previous season (where he actually gave me an insane handicap of Axis+12 in BM3 along with a lot of highly valuable advice) when I had achieved a winning position, he all of a sudden deviated from his generous approach and denied an obvious edit request for a poorly placed Italian fig before I was about to play Germany.
Franz had not made any impact whatsoever and I think even no dice had been rolled, so it was simply a lesson for me to try to be more careful. Of course I was a bit disappointed and upset, since it was a deviation from what I was used to between us, but I quickly accepted the situation and also realized that my opponent was fully entitled to change his approach.
I certainly didn’t hold a grudge regarding this, but on the contrary continue to appreciate @axis-dominion as a highly just and competent opponent. I have a very slim chance of beating him and my self-confidence would unfortunately not survive playing him at the moment.
About the game
@ksmckay said in L21 #2 trulpen (X+4) vs Pejon_88 (A) P2V:
Pejon proposed an illegal set of combat moves for UK6. Before any dice were rolled is he allowed to correct his UK turn to correct for the illegal move? To me the answer to this is a no brainer, yes.
Of course it’s allowed to correct for an illegal move. It even has to, which also is one of the points.
An edit of US NCM made during the UK-turn leading to an illegal move by UK cannot be adjusted with support of the rules. It can however be changed if the opponent allows it, but I didn’t in this particular case. I know, that’s what you’re so upset about.
I usually allow US-edits during UK. That’s my standard. In this instance it was however a very delicate and game changing situation. I had blundered the german fleet position by neglecting a lot of UK-air in Leningrad. Is there any moral decree why I should allow for my opponent to adjust for a blunder when I won’t be able to adjust for a blunder of my own?
Anyway, what I could tell from the rolled dice (which have not been posted here), the extra fig wouldn’t have mattered much. That’s however not particularly relevant.
I could argue that it’s bad sportsmanship and fairplay to not allow a correction of the german position, but I don’t. Also, I haven’t asked for it and I similarly state it would be absurd to push for it. To paraphrase someone, it speaks volumes to suggest that I equate a german edit during UK with one for US.
@ksmckay said in L21 #2 trulpen (X+4) vs Pejon_88 (A) P2V:
The scramble question has nothing to do with anything and simply a lame excuse.
Of course it is a crucial fact that a scramble request has been issued. That more or less locks the position, except for correcting an illegal move in any way possible.
With your logic you could issue a scramble request and then if the opponent chooses to scramble you could simply retreat the attack and not risk anything. The game doesn’t work that way and you know it.
Now please get off my back.
