Mar 08, 2012 22:18
Setup: There's a couple overlapping ongoing RGB threads concerning, variously, whether games whose conditions of contest are contrary to the regional authority's laws should be sanctioned and/or permitted to award masterpoints, and whether BBO games are examples of this (specifically, one type of BBO event has a human and 3 robots at each table and the deals are rotated so that the human always holds the hand with the most HCP; an alternate suggestion is that if the human's partner becomes declarer they simply let the human declare the hand instead).
From: zorak@ninthbit.com (Lone Locust of the Apocalypse)
Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
Subject: Re: Laws question
Adam Beneschan writes:
>Perhaps special Laws need to be written for robot games.
1. A robot may not revoke or, through inaction, allow a human being
to revoke.
2. A robot dummy must play the cards as instructed by the human declarer,
except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot declaring at IMPs must protect the contract as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
isaac asimov,
bridge,
robots,
geekiness