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A. |
Right to Award an Adjusted Score |
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The Director may award an adjusted
score (or scores), either on his own initiative or on the application of any
player, but only when these Laws empower him to do so, or: |
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1. |
Laws Provide No
Indemnity |
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The Director may award an assigned
adjusted score when he judges that these Laws do not provide indemnity to the
non-offending contestant for the particular type of violation of law committed
by an opponent. |
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2. |
Normal Play of
the Board Is Impossible |
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The Director may award an artificial
adjusted score if no rectification can be made that will permit normal play of
the board (see Law 88). |
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3. |
Incorrect
Penalty Has Been Paid |
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The Director may award an adjusted
score if an incorrect penalty has been paid. |
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B. |
No Adjustment for Undue Severity of Penalty |
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The Director may not award an
adjusted score on the ground that the penalty provided in these Laws is either
unduly severe or advantageous to either side. |
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C. |
Awarding an Adjusted Score |
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1. |
Artificial
Score |
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When, owing to an irregularity, no
result can be obtained, the Director awards an artificial adjusted score
according to responsibility for the irregularity: average minus ( at most 40%
of the available matchpoints in pairs) to a contestant directly at fault;
average (50% in pairs) to a contestant only partially at fault; average plus
(at least 60% in pairs ) to a contestant in no way at fault (see
Law 86 for team play or Law 88
for pairs play). The scores awarded to the two sides need not balance. |
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2. |
Assigned
Score |
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When the Director awards an assigned
adjusted score in place of a result actually obtained after an irregularity,
the score is, for a non-offending side, the most favourable result that was
likely had the irregularity not occurred or, for an offending side, the most
unfavourable result that was at all probable. The scores awarded to the two
sides need not balance and may be assigned either in matchpoints or by altering
the total-point score prior to matchpointing |
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3. |
Unless Zonal
Organisations specify otherwise, an appeals committee may vary an assigned
adjusted score in order to do equity. |
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