prb4 wrote:It's a great idea.
However once the FAQ was written by the panel of experts it would need some sort of official rubber stamp from the authors, otherwise people will still argue.
It would also help if tournament organisers/umpires stated before a comp that they would be using the clarifications set out in the FAQ.
Peter
You could publish it in a book 3 times as thick as the rule book and call it 'I called Richard last night'
Seriously though, I think sometimes we take being 'correct' to extremes and overly complicate things. Good idea in general, but when I see 'can't turn wont turn' up to it's 12th page of comments it makes me wonder. Sure, a lot of that is probably sledging, but a lot of it is probably a situation that is difficult/impossible to determine under the rules, and if you covered every possible scenario the rules would be something like the encyclopaedia britanica.
FAQ fine, but I'd be wary of it becoming too 'cover all bases'