The phrase "alter the rules of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes or modifications to established guidelines or regulations.
Example: "The committee decided to alter the rules of the competition to make it more inclusive for all participants."
Alternatives: "change the regulations of" or "modify the guidelines of".
Does Trudeau believe the president might ever actually alter the rules of satiric engagement?
With great power in this case, a technology that can alter the rules of evolution comes great responsibility.
It is not fair to alter the rules of the game when wage concessions had been made for many years in order to secure these and other benefits.
NEW 401(k) regulations that take effect next month will sharply alter the rules of the game — at least for some employees.
From the White House to Congress to liberal think tanks, recent Democratic proposals would substantially alter the rules of the marketplace.
Here again, America's real-life distributional game is analogous, as a few at the top gain increasing political power to alter the rules of the game to their advantage.
In addition to matching the administration's limit on 30-month delays, the Senate measure would alter the rules on exclusive marketing of generic drugs.
Measures to change state pensions, require drug testing for welfare recipients, cut in teacher pay, and, of course, alter the rules on early voting hours would surely have turned out differently.
Given the large uncertainty in our estimates of evolutionary rates (see below), this increase appears minor, and we conclude that considering adaptation over 'time frames of conservation interest' does not substantially alter the rule-of-thumb that critical rates are typically around 0.1 haldanes.
In a case that stood to alter the rules for the separation of powers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Barack Obama and Congress did not violate the Constitution when they passed a law favoring more than 1,000 victims and survivors of the Beirut barracks bombing and other terror plots linked to the Iranian government.
The order does not alter the rules for intelligence agencies' covert use of cyber-operations.
