Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #125
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Ackanomic Digest         Monday, July 22 1996         Volume 01 : Number 125

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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 14:15:41 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 987 Passes

Here are the voting results for : 987
  Proposal 987 - Tue Jul 09 15:09:38 EDT 1996
  No Juryrigging
  Malenkai  (Randy Hall)

Quorum met : 16 eligible voters -- 13 players cast votes

11 YES votes   2 NO votes   0 PRESENT votes
Proposal PASSES

Malenkai gains 9 points.  19 -> 28

11 YES votes:  
  Robin Hood                                  =  13               
  Malenkai               FUN                  =  28               
  Brinjal                                     =   2               
  ThinMan                Nobs                 =  11               
  gnome                                       =   0               
  De'ghew                Underworld           =   5               
  Bascule                FUN                  =  23               
  snowgod                (None Yet)           = -38               
  Habeous Corpus                              =  18               
  /dev/joe               Nobs                 = 116               
  Wayne                  Underworld           =  16               

2 NO votes:  2 points each
  this is not a name     (None Yet)            34 -> 36           
  Kelly Martin           Nobs                  22 -> 24           

0 PRESENT votes:

3 ABSTENTIONS:
  Techno                 Underworld           
  Robert Sevin           Foozball             
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)           

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  fon                                         
  The Great Old One                           
  Mellon                                      
  chess piece face       Foozball             
  Niccolo Flychuck                            
  Simon Marty Harriman   Foozball             
  Calvin N Hobbes        FUN                  
  pTang1001001sos                             
  Pascal                                      

New players who are not active:

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Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
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Proposal 987 - Tue Jul 09 15:09:38 EDT 1996
No Juryrigging
Malenkai  (Randy Hall)

Amend Rule 589 "Invoking Judgement", to insert the following text
immediately after the paragraph which starts with the phrase "CFJ's with
no clear statement":

Any CFJ whose statement is substantially similar, or whose negative is
substantially similar, to the statement of a CFJ submitted by the same
player within the past week, in the judgement of the judge, shall be
judged Invalid. This applies even in the case that the previously submitted
CFJ was retracted by the player in question.

{{[If my other proposal to fix 589 fails, and Invalid is an undefined
judgement, this will be retracted. This is to fix a loophole that allows
"shotgunning" of CFJs until one gets a judge they like, and then retracting
the others. It also applies to the case where you get a judge you don't 
like, and retract in hopes of getting a better draw. I will probably use
this loophole, for now, if Bascule's mail continues to bounce. The 
alternative is to jack up the penalty for CFJ retraction, which was a bad
idea to start with (CFJ retraction is), but we've already shown what
scores may mean, so I went with this idea]}}

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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 14:13:59 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 985 Passes

Here are the voting results for : 985
  Proposal 985 - Tue Jul 09 15:09:09 EDT 1996
  Amend 660
  pTang1001001sos  (Mark Nau)

Quorum met : 17 eligible voters -- 14 players cast votes

9 YES votes   4 NO votes   1 PRESENT votes
Proposal PASSES

pTang1001001sos gains 9 points.  17 -> 26

9 YES votes:  
  Brinjal                                     =   2               
  ThinMan                Nobs                 =  11               
  Niccolo Flychuck                            =  36               
  gnome                                       =   0               
  Bascule                FUN                  =  23               
  snowgod                (None Yet)           = -38               
  this is not a name     (None Yet)           =  32               
  /dev/joe               Nobs                 = 116               
  Wayne                  Underworld           =  16               

4 NO votes:  2 points each
  Robin Hood                                   11 -> 13           
  Malenkai               FUN                    8 -> 10           
  Habeous Corpus                               14 -> 16           
  Kelly Martin           Nobs                  18 -> 20           

1 PRESENT votes:
  De'ghew                Underworld            =   5

3 ABSTENTIONS:
  Techno                 Underworld           
  Robert Sevin           Foozball             
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)           

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  fon                                         
  The Great Old One                           
  Mellon                                      
  chess piece face       Foozball             
  Simon Marty Harriman   Foozball             
  Calvin N Hobbes        FUN                  
  pTang1001001sos                             
  Pascal                                      

New players who are not active:

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Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
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Proposal 985 - Tue Jul 09 15:09:09 EDT 1996
Amend 660
pTang1001001sos  (Mark Nau)

A Proposal to amend R660:
- -----------------------------------------------------
Insert immediately after the phrase "the rule set,":

"votes and the voting process,"

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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 14:16:34 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 988 Fails

Here are the voting results for : 988
  Proposal 988 - Wed Jul 10 01:28:13 EDT 1996
  Selecting A Judge
  Niccolo Flychuck  (Uri Bruck)

Quorum met : 17 eligible voters -- 14 players cast votes

7 YES votes   6 NO votes   1 PRESENT votes
Proposal FAILS

Niccolo Flychuck loses 9 points.  36 -> 27

7 YES votes:  1 point each
  Robin Hood                                   13 -> 14           
  Niccolo Flychuck                             27 -> 28           
  gnome                                       =   0               
  De'ghew                Underworld             5 -> 6            
  snowgod                (None Yet)           -38 -> -37          
  Habeous Corpus                               18 -> 19           
  Wayne                  Underworld            16 -> 17           

6 NO votes:  
  Malenkai               FUN                  =  28               
  Brinjal                                     =   2               
  ThinMan                Nobs                 =  11               
  Bascule                FUN                  =  23               
  this is not a name     (None Yet)           =  36               
  Kelly Martin           Nobs                 =  24               

1 PRESENT votes:
  /dev/joe               Nobs                  = 116

3 ABSTENTIONS:
  Techno                 Underworld           
  Robert Sevin           Foozball             
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)           

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  fon                                         
  Mellon                                      
  The Great Old One                           
  chess piece face       Foozball             
  Simon Marty Harriman   Foozball             
  Calvin N Hobbes        FUN                  
  pTang1001001sos                             
  Pascal                                      

New players who are not active:

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Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 14:17:39 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 989 Passes

Here are the voting results for : 989
  Proposal 989 - Wed Jul 10 01:28:30 EDT 1996
  Definition of Judging Index
  Niccolo Flychuck  (Uri Bruck)

Quorum met : 17 eligible voters -- 14 players cast votes

10 YES votes   4 NO votes   0 PRESENT votes
Proposal PASSES

Niccolo Flychuck gains 9 points.  28 -> 37

10 YES votes:  
  Robin Hood                                  =  14               
  Niccolo Flychuck                            =  37               
  gnome                                       =   0               
  De'ghew                Underworld           =   6               
  snowgod                (None Yet)           = -37               
  this is not a name     (None Yet)           =  36               
  Habeous Corpus                              =  19               
  Kelly Martin           Nobs                 =  24               
  /dev/joe               Nobs                 = 116               
  Wayne                  Underworld           =  17               

4 NO votes:  2 points each
  Malenkai               FUN                   28 -> 30           
  Brinjal                                       2 -> 4            
  ThinMan                Nobs                  11 -> 13           
  Bascule                FUN                   23 -> 25           

0 PRESENT votes:

3 ABSTENTIONS:
  Techno                 Underworld           
  Robert Sevin           Foozball             
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)           

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  fon                                         
  The Great Old One                           
  Mellon                                      
  chess piece face       Foozball             
  Simon Marty Harriman   Foozball             
  Calvin N Hobbes        FUN                  
  pTang1001001sos                             
  Pascal                                      

New players who are not active:

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Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
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Proposal 989 - Wed Jul 10 01:28:30 EDT 1996
Definition of Judging Index
Niccolo Flychuck  (Uri Bruck)

A proposal to create a rule entitled "Definition of Judging Index" which
contains the following text:

1. Let each registered player have a Judgement Index, which may be reffered
to as JI.
2. Let MaxJI equal the greatest JI. There may be more than one player whose
JI equals MaxJI
3. When ever MaxJI is smaller than 4, the JI of all players are increased by
(4-MaxJI)
4. Whenever a new player joins the game, eir JI will be set to 3
5 The officer in charge of selecting Judges will keep track of JIs. 
6. The value of JIs is public information.
7. {{all players' JIs are set equal to 4. }}

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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 14:18:35 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 990 Passes

Here are the voting results for : 990
  Proposal 990 - Wed Jul 10 01:29:01 EDT 1996
  Swinger Like to Play I - the board and the pieces
  Niccolo Flychuck  (Uri Bruck)

Quorum met : 17 eligible voters -- 14 players cast votes

11 YES votes   3 NO votes   0 PRESENT votes
Proposal PASSES

Niccolo Flychuck gains 9 points.  37 -> 46

11 YES votes:  
  Malenkai               FUN                  =  30               
  Robin Hood                                  =  14               
  Brinjal                                     =   4               
  Niccolo Flychuck                            =  46               
  gnome                                       =   0               
  De'ghew                Underworld           =   6               
  Bascule                FUN                  =  25               
  snowgod                (None Yet)           = -37               
  Habeous Corpus                              =  19               
  /dev/joe               Nobs                 = 116               
  Wayne                  Underworld           =  17               

3 NO votes:  2 points each
  ThinMan                Nobs                  13 -> 15           
  this is not a name     (None Yet)            36 -> 38           
  Kelly Martin           Nobs                  24 -> 26           

0 PRESENT votes:

3 ABSTENTIONS:
  Techno                 Underworld           
  Robert Sevin           Foozball             
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)           

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  fon                                         
  Mellon                                      
  The Great Old One                           
  chess piece face       Foozball             
  Simon Marty Harriman   Foozball             
  Calvin N Hobbes        FUN                  
  pTang1001001sos                             
  Pascal                                      

New players who are not active:

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Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
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Proposal 990 - Wed Jul 10 01:29:01 EDT 1996
Swinger Like to Play I - the board and the pieces
Niccolo Flychuck  (Uri Bruck)

A proposal to create a new rule by the name of "Swingers Play Around I - the
board and the playing pieces"
1. There exists a checkered board, divided into 20 by 20 squares, which resides
 in Party Hall. It is called the Party Board. The Party Board is Protected. The
 Party Board is used for the sole purpose of playing a game called Party Chess.
Each column has a letter assigned to it, from a-t beginning with the leftmost 
column. Each row has an integer assigned to it, from 1-20, when viewed on a 
screen, the lowest row is 1, the highest is 20, consecutive rows are marked 
with consecutive integers

Each square on the Party Board has coordinates made up of the a letter, 
which corresponds to the column the square is part of, and an integer, which 
corresponds to the row the square is part of. The letter always preceeds the 
integer.
Food or drink may not be placed on the Party Board.

2. Party Chess Pieces
A. Each Swinger controls a set of Party Chess Pieces. The pieces are owned by
 the Office of Swinger, and controlled by the Swinger who holds that office. 
Whenever this rules refers to pieces as being owned, or as property of a
 Swinger, the implied meaning is that they are owned by, or are the 
property of the Office of the Swinger.
B.A Swinger may acquire new pieces in one of two ways: (i)by capturing an  
opponent's piece, as described elsewhere in this rule . (ii) by purchasing  
a new piece from the Treasury.
C  on-board pieces are pieces which are currently on the Party Board. 
  off-board pieces are pieces which are currently off the Party Board.

D.
   (i) Any player  may announce at any time that e is purchasing a new 
       Party  Chess Piece.
    (ii)The Party Chess Piece must  be a piece defined by a 
	PartyChessPieceDef  rule
    (iii) The price of a new Party Chess Piece is equal to M*5+10 A$, 
	where M is the material value of the piece. The money is paid to the 
	 Treasury.
    (iv) If a Party member purchases a Party Chess Piece, it becomes the 
	property  of the Swinger of that player's Party
    (v)if a non-aligned player purchases a piece, it becomes the property of 
	the Office of the NAP-Swinger
   (vi)Any newly purchased Party Chess Piece is initially off-board

E. When a Party is disbanded all the Party Chess Pieces owned by the Swinger 
  or that party are destroyed. No re-imbursement is made for destroyed pieces.

F. When ever the word 'piece' or 'Piece' is used in this rule, it means
Party Chess 
Piece.

3. PartyChessPieceDef rules
A. Each PartyChessPieceDef rule defines exactly one type of piece that can be
 purchased and used in the game of Party Chess
B. A PartyChessPieceDef rule must include in its title the words 'Creation 
of  PartyChessPiece' followed by the name of the piece
C. A PartyChessPieceDef rule must define the legal moves a piece can make. 
That is, define in a non-ambiugous way, which empty squares on the Party Board 
the piece can move to. All such definition are relative to the current 
square the piece occupies
D. A PartyChessPieceDef rule may define different rules for capturing an 
opponent's piece. Capturing consists of moving into a square occupied by an
 opponent's piece, removing the opponent's piece from the board, and adding 
it to one's own off-board pieces. If a PartyChessPieceDef rule does not define 
rules for capture, then the rules defined for movement, are also the rules 
for capture. - i.e. piece A can capture opponent's piece B, if B occupies a
 square, that, had it been vacant, would have been legal for A to move into.

E. Capturing friendly pieces is forbidden. 
F. A PartyChessPieceDef rule must define a material value for the piece.
G. A PartyChessPieceDef rule must define a non-space ASCII character to 
represent the piece. The character must not be one that is already used by 
another Party Chess Piece. These characters will be used to represent the 
pieces on representation of the Party Board.
H. The only exception to section 3 of this rule is the Party Chess Piece named
 King. The King is defined in a seperate section of this rule.

I. This section (section 3.I) defers to all PartyChessPieceDef rules
  (i) Pieces may be promoted or demoted unless a PartyChessPieceDef rules
specifically states that they can be.
 (ii) A piece may not skip over other pieces, unless it specifically allowed
by the PartChessPieceDef rule defining that piece.
 (iii) There are 8 main directions:
     horizontal - when a piece moves from a square, to another square in the
same row, it is said to move in a horizontal direction. 
    veritcal - when a piece moves from a square, to another square in the
same column, it is said to move in the vertical direction
   diagonal - when a piece moves from  a square to another square, such that
the number of rows it moved, is equal to the number of columns it moved, it
is said to move in a diagonal direction.
  Altogether, can move, at most, in either of two horizontal directions,
either of two vertical directions, and either of four diagonal directions,
making for a total of 8, every move can defined as a combination of those 8.
   Whenever  PartyChessPieceDef rules refer to all direction, then they
refer, only to the directions specified in this section of this
rule.Whenever PartyChessPieceDef rules refer to any given direction, then
they refer to any of the directions specified in this section of this rule,
however, they must be considered one at a time, and the considerations must
be independent of one another.

(iv)The capital letters R and C may stand for the row and column which 
the square the piece currently occupies is a part of, respectively.
(v)The terms DestR, and DestC, may standfor the row and column of any
destination square
(vi) The term SQ1 refers to the closest square in any given direction. The
term SQ2 refferes to the second closest square in any given direction. The
term SQ3, refers to the 3rd closest square in any given direction, and so on
until SQ19.
SQ0- reffers to square (R,C)
(vii)The term dR refers to the absolute value of (DestR-R).  The term dC
refers to the absolute value of (DestC-C)
(viii)The symbols /AND/ /OR/  /XOR/ /NOT/ 
   correspond to the logical operators AND,OR, X,OR,NOT respectively, and 
have the same meanings. In order to distinguish them from standard English 
words, they are written all caps, and are written between forward slashes / /

J.All Party Chess Pieces are Protected  

4. This rule take precedence over all PartyChessPieceDef rules, except when
this rule specifically states otherwise.
5. Section 3 of this rule in its entirety defers to the rule Creation of
PartyChessPiece King

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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 14:18:53 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 991 Passes

Here are the voting results for : 991
  Proposal 991 - Wed Jul 10 01:29:35 EDT 1996
  Swingers Like to Play Around II - Let's Play
  Niccolo Flychuck  (Uri Bruck)

Quorum met : 17 eligible voters -- 14 players cast votes

11 YES votes   3 NO votes   0 PRESENT votes
Proposal PASSES

Niccolo Flychuck gains 9 points.  46 -> 55

11 YES votes:  
  Malenkai               FUN                  =  30               
  Robin Hood                                  =  14               
  Brinjal                                     =   4               
  Niccolo Flychuck                            =  55               
  gnome                                       =   0               
  De'ghew                Underworld           =   6               
  Bascule                FUN                  =  25               
  snowgod                (None Yet)           = -37               
  Habeous Corpus                              =  19               
  /dev/joe               Nobs                 = 116               
  Wayne                  Underworld           =  17               

3 NO votes:  2 points each
  ThinMan                Nobs                  15 -> 17           
  this is not a name     (None Yet)            38 -> 40           
  Kelly Martin           Nobs                  26 -> 28           

0 PRESENT votes:

3 ABSTENTIONS:
  Techno                 Underworld           
  Robert Sevin           Foozball             
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)           

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  fon                                         
  The Great Old One                           
  Mellon                                      
  chess piece face       Foozball             
  Simon Marty Harriman   Foozball             
  Calvin N Hobbes        FUN                  
  pTang1001001sos                             
  Pascal                                      

New players who are not active:

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Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
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Proposal 991 - Wed Jul 10 01:29:35 EDT 1996
Swingers Like to Play Around II - Let's Play
Niccolo Flychuck  (Uri Bruck)

A proposal to create a rule with the title "Swingers Like to Play Around II
- - Let's  play", which conatains the following text

1. Office of the  Chess-Umpire
A.The functional office of Chess Umpire exists.
B. Any player who is not a Swinger is eligible for the office of Chess-Umpire
C. If a Chess-Umpire becomes a Swinger, e must immediately resign eir position
 as Chess-Umpire.
D. The Chess-Umpire has the following duties:
  (i) maintaining and updating the Party Board
  (ii) Checking for the legality of the moves
  (iii) Notifying Swingers that it is their turn to move - by private e-mail
  (iv) Alerting Swingers to the fact that they are being checked, by a 
       public message, which indicates which Swinger or Swingers have been 
	placed in a state of check.
  (v) Calculating and posting the Swingers' Absolute and Relative Weights 
	after each move.
  (vi) Maintaining a list of game history - all the moves made, Pieces purchased
 	 and owned
  (vii) The Chess-Umpire will make this information publically  available.
	 If possible, the information will be maintained on a web-page as well.
  (vii) Determining the playing order.

2. Managing the Game
A. At the begining of the game of Party Chess there are no Party Chess
Pieces on the Party Board
B. Each Office of Swinger receives one King, and five playing pieces. Each 
  Swinger may choose any five pieces which are defined be a 
  PartyChessPieceDef rule, as long as their total material value does not 
  exceed 30. These pieces are freely given.   Initially all pieces are off-board
C. When a new Office of Swinger is created, it receives one King and five 
   playing pieces, as described in 2b
D. Whenever an Office of Swinger is destroyed, as a result of the fact that eir 
   Party no longer exists, all Party Chess Pieces owned by that office are 
   destroyed. No re-imbursement is made for the destroyed items.
E. Determining the playing-order: the NAP Swinger is always first in the playing
   order. The Chess-Umpire determines the playing-order of the Party 
   Swingers randomly.
F. Spectators are players who are not Swingers, and observers, who wish to 
   follow the game. When ever this rule calls for a public announcement to be 
   made, it means that the anouncement is made to all the Swinger and all the 
   Spectators
G.Swingers take turns playing according to the playing-order
H. Every play must be announced publically - except when this rule specifically 
   states otherwise. Once a play has been publically announced, the turn 
   becomes the turn of the next Swinger in the playing-order. That Swinger 
   has four days in which to make eir play, otherwise eir play defaults to a
Pass
I. After the last Swinger in the playing-order has played, the next Swinger in
    the playing-order is the first Swinger in the playing order.
J. Playing-order must always be followed, except when this rule specifies 
   otherwise.
K.(i)A Round of play is defined as a time period in which each Swinger
played exactly once, where default Passes are counted as plays, Special
D-Turns are not counted, Special DD-Turn, are only counted if no Swinger was
on-hold during the procedure called Special-DD-Turn.
(ii)Each time a Round of play is over, the Number of Rounds counter is
incremented by 1
(iii)When ever a new game of Party Chess is started, the Number of Rounds
Counter is set to 0

3.Playing the game
A.
(i) An opposing piece, or an opponent's piece, is a piece controlled by
another Swinger, regardless of 
    any agreements, contracts, or treaties made between the different 
    Swingers.
(ii)A friendly piece is a piece controlled by the same Swinger.
(iii)Piece A is said to attack opposing piece B, iff the pieces are placed 
     on squares such that had it been Swinger A's turn, he could capture piece 
      B, using piece A. 
(iv)Piece A is said to defend friendly piece B, iff piece A and B are placed 
    on squares such that had B been an opposing piece, A would have been said 
    to attack B.

B.On eir turn Swinger may make one of the following plays
terms between ' <' and '>'  will be substituted by actual values during gameplay
(i). Move- The Swinger moves an on-board  piece e controls from the square it 
     is on, to an unoccupied square, according the PartyChessPieceDef rule, 
     defining that piece. Move is announced as follows:

Move <piece name> <current square>  To <destination square>

(ii). Capture - The Swinger moves an on-board piece e controls from the square 
      it is on, to a square occupied by an opponent's piece, according to the 
      PartyChessPieceDef rule defining the moved piece. The opponent's piece is 
      removed from the board, and becomes the property of the Swinger who 
      captured it. Captured pieces  are initially off-board.
Capture is anounced as follows
<friendly piece name> <current square>  Captures <destination square> 
   	<opponent's piece name> <opponent's Party name>

(iii). Placement - a Swinger places one of eir of-board pieces on an unoccupied 
	square on the board. The Swinger may not place the piece in such a 
	position that it attacks one or more opposing pieces.
Placement is anounced as follows:
Place <piece name> at <destination square>

(iv). Pass - the Swinger does nothing.  If a Swinger makes no play, 
	within four days of the the most recent play made, then he is 
	considered to have Passed. Such a play is called a Pass by Default, 
	and is considered a play for all practical purposes, including the 
	four day count.
A Pass is anounced as follows:
Pass

(v). Surrender - All of the Swinger's pieces are removed from the board, and 
 	become off-board pieces. 
A Surrender is anounced as follows:
Surrender

C.
(i) If a promotable piece is moved, whether through a Move, or a Capture, into 
	a position which allows it to be promoted, then it is immediately 
	promoted. 
	The process of promotion is as follows: The original promotable 
	piece is destroyed, and instantly, the piece to which it promotes 
	is created, at no cost, and placed on the square that was occupied by 
	the promotable piece when it was destroyed.
(ii) If a Swinger Places a piece on a move, e may not Move, or Capture in eir 
	next move, unless e is in a state of check.Such a move is not a Special D-Turn.
(iii) A Swinger may not Pass if e is currently in a state of check
(iv) A play that results in placing the Swinger who made that play in a state of
	 check, is illegal. - If there is no legal play, other than 
	Surrender, that would not place the Swinger in a state of check, 
	then the Swinger must surrender

D
(i) A Swinger is considered to be checked, or in a state of check, when eir 
	King is attacked by one or more opposing pieces. 
(ii) It is the responsibility of the Chess-Umpire to identify states of check 
	and alert the Swingers that such a state exists, and let the Swingers
	 know whose King is being atttacked.
(iii) Whenever the Chess-Umpire declares that a state of check exists the 
	following procedure take place:
     	If the Swinger whose turn it is to play, is not the checked Swinger, 
	then the Swinger whose turn it is to play is placed On-Hold, and the
	 turn becomes the turn of the checked Swinger. This turn is called "Special
D-Turn
                   After the checked Swinger
	 has made eir play, the turn reverts back to the Swinger On-Hold, and
	 e is no longer On-Hold
(iv) If two or more Swingers are checked simultaneously then the following 
	procedure, called "Special DD-Turn", takes place:
 (a) If the Swinger whose turn it is to play, is not one of the checked 
	Swingers, then the Swinger whose turn it is to play is placed On-Hold. 
  (b) Each of the checked Swingers mails eir play by private e-mail to the 
	Chess-Umpire
 (c) If there no conflict between the results of the plays, then the
Chess-Umpire anounces
	 the plays publically and updates the Party Board accordingly.
 (d) If there is a conflict between the plays, then the Chess-Umpire anounces
	 this fact publically, the plays are not played,
                   and each of the checked Swingers must again mail
	 eir plays privately to the Chess-Umpire,
 (e) If the Chess-Umpire decided that there are no possible moves that would 
	not result in conflict, then e must anounce that fact, and all of the 
	checked Swingers must Surrender
 (f) If after 4+cp repetitions of the procedure described in steps /b/-/d/, 
	the Swingers' plays still result in conflict, where cp is 
	the number of checked Swingers, then the Chess Umpire announces 
	that fact, and all of the checked Swingers must surrender.

 (g) A state of conflict is defined as one of the following:
     /i/ Two or more Party Chess Pieces occupy the same square, where none
       of those pieces had occupied that square before. 
   /ii/ The result of plays is that at least one of the checked Swingers is
        	 still checked, by the same Swinger or Swinger sthat he was checked
by when the Special         DD-Turn procedure commenced.

 

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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 14:21:25 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 993 Fails

Here are the voting results for : 993
  Proposal 993 - Wed Jul 10 01:30:31 EDT 1996
  The Law of Party Gravitiy
  Niccolo Flychuck  (Uri Bruck)

Quorum met : 17 eligible voters -- 14 players cast votes

9 YES votes   5 NO votes   0 PRESENT votes
Proposal FAILS

Niccolo Flychuck loses 9 points.  64 -> 55

9 YES votes:  1 point each
  Malenkai               FUN                   30 -> 31           
  Robin Hood                                   14 -> 15           
  Brinjal                                       4 -> 5            
  Niccolo Flychuck                             55 -> 56           
  gnome                                       =   0               
  De'ghew                Underworld             6 -> 7            
  snowgod                (None Yet)           -37 -> -36          
  Habeous Corpus                               19 -> 20           
  /dev/joe               Nobs                 116 -> 117          

5 NO votes:  
  ThinMan                Nobs                 =  19               
  Bascule                FUN                  =  25               
  this is not a name     (None Yet)           =  42               
  Kelly Martin           Nobs                 =  30               
  Wayne                  Underworld           =  17               

0 PRESENT votes:

3 ABSTENTIONS:
  Techno                 Underworld           
  Robert Sevin           Foozball             
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)           

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  fon                                         
  The Great Old One                           
  Mellon                                      
  chess piece face       Foozball             
  Simon Marty Harriman   Foozball             
  Calvin N Hobbes        FUN                  
  pTang1001001sos                             
  Pascal                                      

New players who are not active:

====================================================
Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 14:21:53 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 994 Passes

Here are the voting results for : 994
  Proposal 994 - Wed Jul 10 01:31:07 EDT 1996
  Creation of a PartyChessPiece King
  Niccolo Flychuck  (Uri Bruck)

Quorum met : 17 eligible voters -- 13 players cast votes

14 YES votes   0 NO votes   0 PRESENT votes
Proposal PASSES

Niccolo Flychuck gains 9 points.  56 -> 65

14 YES votes:  
  Malenkai               FUN                  =  31               
  Robin Hood                                  =  15               
  ThinMan                Nobs                 =  19               
  Niccolo Flychuck                            =  65               
  gnome                                       =   0               
  De'ghew                Underworld           =   7               
  Bascule                FUN                  =  25               
  Nobs Unity vote                             =   0               
  snowgod                (None Yet)           = -36               
  this is not a name     (None Yet)           =  42               
  Habeous Corpus                              =  20               
  Kelly Martin           Nobs                 =  30               
  /dev/joe               Nobs                 = 117               
  Wayne                  Underworld           =  17               

0 NO votes:  2 points each

0 PRESENT votes:

4 ABSTENTIONS:
  Brinjal                                     
  Techno                 Underworld           
  Robert Sevin           Foozball             
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)           

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  fon                                         
  Mellon                                      
  The Great Old One                           
  chess piece face       Foozball             
  Simon Marty Harriman   Foozball             
  Calvin N Hobbes        FUN                  
  pTang1001001sos                             
  Pascal                                      

New players who are not active:

====================================================
Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
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Proposal 994 - Wed Jul 10 01:31:07 EDT 1996
Creation of a PartyChessPiece King
Niccolo Flychuck  (Uri Bruck)

A proposal to create a rule with the title "Creation of a PartyChessPiece King"
which contains the following text:

A. Each Swinger has exactly one king.
B. The King may move exactly one square in any direction.
C. This definition is analogous to section 7.b :
 The king may move to a square (DestR,DestC) which belong to the set of all 
squares such that dC=1 /OR/ dR=1 
D. The material value of the King is undefined
E. For the purpose of the game of Party Chess, 'King' is a genderless word.
F. The ASCII character representing the King is K
g. A King can be neither purchased nor captured.

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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 14:20:51 EDT 
From: [email-masked] ()
Subject: Ackanomic: Prop 992 Passes

Here are the voting results for : 992
  Proposal 992 - Wed Jul 10 01:29:58 EDT 1996
  Swingers Like to Play Around III - mostly odds
  Niccolo Flychuck  (Uri Bruck)

Quorum met : 17 eligible voters -- 14 players cast votes

11 YES votes   3 NO votes   0 PRESENT votes
Proposal PASSES

Niccolo Flychuck gains 9 points.  55 -> 64

11 YES votes:  
  Malenkai               FUN                  =  30               
  Robin Hood                                  =  14               
  Brinjal                                     =   4               
  Niccolo Flychuck                            =  64               
  gnome                                       =   0               
  De'ghew                Underworld           =   6               
  Bascule                FUN                  =  25               
  snowgod                (None Yet)           = -37               
  Habeous Corpus                              =  19               
  /dev/joe               Nobs                 = 116               
  Wayne                  Underworld           =  17               

3 NO votes:  2 points each
  ThinMan                Nobs                  17 -> 19           
  this is not a name     (None Yet)            40 -> 42           
  Kelly Martin           Nobs                  28 -> 30           

0 PRESENT votes:

3 ABSTENTIONS:
  Techno                 Underworld           
  Robert Sevin           Foozball             
  mr cwm                 (None Yet)           

Players on Vacation who did not vote:
  fon                                         
  Mellon                                      
  The Great Old One                           
  chess piece face       Foozball             
  Simon Marty Harriman   Foozball             
  Calvin N Hobbes        FUN                  
  pTang1001001sos                             
  Pascal                                      

New players who are not active:

====================================================
Wayne, your friendly Tabulator
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Proposal 992 - Wed Jul 10 01:29:58 EDT 1996
Swingers Like to Play Around III - mostly odds
Niccolo Flychuck  (Uri Bruck)

A proposal to create a rule with title "Swingers Like to Play Around III -
mostly odds" which contains the following text:

1. Calculating Swingers' Weight
 A. Whenever a Swinger completes eir play, the Chess- Umpire calculates the
Swingers'
    Weights and posts that information.
 B. Absolute Weight for each Swinger is calculated in the following manner:
    For a Swinger whose King is on-board
    Weight=
    (Total material value of the off-board pieces)+
    3*(Total material value of the on-board piece)+
    for each piece( add the maximum distance the piece can move,
without making
    a capture), where distance is defined as the greater of (abs(DestC-C)),
   (abs(DestR-R))
    for each piece (add 3 if the piece attacks at least one opponent piece)
    for each piece (add 2 if the piece defends at least one friendly piece)
 
    For a Swinger whose King is off-board
    Weight=1
 
  C. Relative Weight for each Swinger is calculated as follows - 
     if the minimum Weight is non-zero, then 
     Relative Weight= Absolute Weight / minimum Weight
     if the minimum Weight is equal to zero then 
     Relative Weight=Absolute Weight

2. The game of Party Chess is Protected.
3. {{in R726 replace the words:
"A Player who occupies a seat in Party Hall will known as a Swinger
(pl.swingers)."
with the words:
"A Player who occupies a seat in Party Hall will known as a Swinger
(pl.swingers). Swinger are political Officers" }}

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