DISCUSSIONS on “Rules for online games in HoMM3 and formulas for calculating player rating.”

Upon restarting after the first encounter between opponents.

...An encounter is considered a direct interaction between players, i.e., any battle between them (a battle between any heroes, a battle with a castle garrison or an opponent's mine)...

So, I understand that capturing an empty (unguarded) enemy Castle[?], mine (unguarded), or taking an opponent's outer building is not grounds for a restart?
And again. The meaning of the word

...Castle...

in this formulation can be interpreted as:
- 1) a city with a built Castle;
- 2) a city of the Castle type.
- 3) any city referred to as such in common parlance.
Rules, like laws, cannot contain formulations that allow for such a wide range of meanings.