I wonder if there's anything in the rules to deal with the fact that a game might never complete.
I wonder if there's anything in the rules to deal with the fact that a game might never complete.
Online play has what is effectively a chess clock. This doesn't work in person because the game involves "priority" passing between players after every single action, which would be difficult to do manually. Additionally, play in person relies on a whole bunch of "shortcuts" that skip steps if both players don't want to do anything, which would make timekeeping even more difficult.
But if you left out these tournament-specific rules and just played the game rules, you could have games going on arbitrarily long. Since you can create "tokens" you can have arbitrary amounts of state, so a game could even loop without ever hitting the same game state twice. (Think "puffer trains" from the John Conway's Game of Life.)