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Re:The Simple Technology That Accidentally Ruined Baseball by jacquesm on Friday September 05, 2014 @07:27AM (#8273287)
> It all comes back to the fact that the reason for sports is not to perfectly follow some set of bizarre rules, its just to be entertaining.

The participants or the audience?

I'm trying hard to imagine a world where the rules of chess are changed to turn it into a more spectator friendly sport.

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Re:The Simple Technology That Accidentally Ruined Baseball by maxerickson on Friday September 05, 2014 @07:41AM (#8273313)
I imagine time limits on moves are partly because of spectators.
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Re:The Simple Technology That Accidentally Ruined Baseball by jacquesm on Friday September 05, 2014 @07:53AM (#8273343)
I think those are mostly to make sure a game will actually progress rather than that one party can force a losing game to a standstill.
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Re:The Simple Technology That Accidentally Ruined Baseball by hyperpape on Friday September 05, 2014 @09:51AM (#8273838)
This isn't precisely the same, but there are many proposals to change the rules of tournament chess to try to limit the number of draws.
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Re:The Simple Technology That Accidentally Ruined Baseball by blowski on Friday September 05, 2014 @07:57AM (#8273358)
In a sense, the rules of chess are frequently changed - speed chess, chess-boxing, Cheshire Cat chess, etc.
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Re:The Simple Technology That Accidentally Ruined Baseball by jacquesm on Friday September 05, 2014 @07:59AM (#8273363)
I would consider those 'variations' rather than rule changes.
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Re:The Simple Technology That Accidentally Ruined Baseball by blowski on Friday September 05, 2014 @08:20AM (#8273448)
In baseball, the rules were not being 'changed' they were just being applied inconsistently because of human limitations. The umpire (or is it referee in baseball) is just another player - human and error-prone. When 'he' (is there a 'she'?) becomes a faultless, indisputable 'it', then that part of the game is lost.

Even in chess, these problems exist. Think of Bobby Fischer moaning about the cameras in 1972.

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