# Episode 14 — A right correction, over-learned

Alice, the Dispatcher, asked Bob to carry her home "on your dispatch chain". Bob corrected her: he cannot move her pawn, only the Dispatcher can. Alice accepted, and went further than the correction: she wrote that the ride works only Bob-ward, never Alice-ward, and retired the plan for a nine-leg walk. Her own legal menu that turn listed a Dispatcher jump of her pawn onto Bob's. Two turns later she took her frontier's line instead: build a station where she stood and cure black there.

| | |
|---|---|
| Game | [Game 11](/games/game-11/summary.md): 2 players, open hands |
| Seats | alice = Dispatcher, bob = Medic; both `zai/glm-5.3-flash` |
| Kind | **a correct correction, accepted too broadly**: the partner's rule is right, and the listener draws a conclusion the rule does not support |
| Moment | log #88–#119 |
| Game result | lost, to eight outbreaks, later |

## Position

From the replayed board after #97: alice in Kolkata holding a complete black set; bob in New York; one station, Atlanta. A Dispatcher may move any pawn, including her own, to a city holding another pawn (the engine's legal moves include `dispatcherJump` for every pawn, the Dispatcher's own included).

## What was said

> **#88 alice:** ride your dispatch chain to Atlanta

> **#89 bob:** I CANNOT drive your pawn anywhere. Dispatcher privilege moves OTHERS' pawns, and YOU hold dispatcher — only you can move mine

> **#92 alice:** ROLE ASYMMETRY ACCEPTED FULLY — you're right: dispatcher moves OTHERS' pawns only; the chain-ride tool works bob-ward from me, never alice-ward. HOME RUN formally RETIRED as a two-way engine

> **prompt alice, before #103:** {"tag":"dispatcherJump","pawn":"alice","toPawn":"bob"}

## What was done

| seq | seat | action |
|---|---|---|
| #117 | alice | driveFerry to Kolkata |
| #118 | alice | buildStation, at Kolkata |
| #119 | alice | discoverCure black, with Riyadh, Karachi, Delhi, Cairo, Istanbul |

## Harness involvement

For each milestone: whether the move was a plan on the seat's frontier (`on-frontier`), a frontier plan with additions (`extends-frontier-line`), named in the standing plan (`in-pinned-plan`), named in another block of the seat's prompt such as a rendezvous route or the cure plan (`in-prompt-block`), or none of these (`seat-originated`). Each is read from the prompts the seat received before acting, quoted below.

| Milestone | Involvement |
|---|---|
| Bob's correction (#89) and alice's acceptance (#92) | claims about a rule, not moves; the jump alice retired stayed on her legal menu |
| Station built at Kolkata and black cured (#118–#119) | `on-frontier`: a surviving line that dominated the walk to Atlanta |

> **prompt alice, before #118:** build a station at Kolkata and cure black here (spends Kolkata) — build station, CURE black

> **prompt alice, before #118:** "head to Atlanta to cure black" — tempo 3 vs 106

## What this cannot show

- Whether the jump would have paid. It lands alice on bob's city, so it needed bob to wait at a station, which neither seat proposed; at the time he stood in New York, with no station.
- Bob was right that he cannot move her pawn. What overreached was "moves OTHERS' pawns" in #89 and alice's restatement of it: the Dispatcher's own pawn can ride the jump too.


## Trace navigation

[Game summary](/games/game-11/summary.md) · [Turns](/games/game-11/turns/index.md) · [Interactive board](/games/game-11/replay.html#event-88) · [Recorded events JSONL](/games/game-11/events.jsonl)

On the board: [#88 Alice asks Bob for a ride](/games/game-11/replay.html#event-88) · [#89 Bob: I cannot move your pawn](/games/game-11/replay.html#event-89) · [#92 Alice retires the ride entirely](/games/game-11/replay.html#event-92) · [#119 Alice cures black at a new station](/games/game-11/replay.html#event-119)

Events cited above, each on its turn page:

[#88](/games/game-11/turns/9.md#e88) · [#89](/games/game-11/turns/9.md#e89) · [#92](/games/game-11/turns/9.md#e92) · [#97](/games/game-11/turns/9.md#e97) · [#103](/games/game-11/turns/10.md#e103) · [#117](/games/game-11/turns/12.md#e117) · [#118](/games/game-11/turns/12.md#e118) · [#119](/games/game-11/turns/12.md#e119)


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