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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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