Re: What would you do here
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 11:52 am
To John Hickmn
Both cases would be too trivial for the arbiter to consider even remembering or noticing
People often fail to record the offer of a draw.
I found it very useful in Rumania in their team championship. Suddenly a player would start speaking to somebody else. By looking at the scoresheet I realised he was asking his captain whether he should take a draw. Of course I did not recognise the captain nor did I know what they were talking about.
Despite what has been said earlier on the forum, 8.1 makes it clear that algebraic notation must be used to conform to the FIDE Laws. Good arbiters give dispensation when requested to do so. The late Bob Wade told me many years ago that he had noticed a young foreign player had recorded the game in descriptive. When Bob remonstrated with him, the player said, 'Oh, I recorded in descriptive because I thought the English preferred that.'
Stewart Reuben
Both cases would be too trivial for the arbiter to consider even remembering or noticing
People often fail to record the offer of a draw.
I found it very useful in Rumania in their team championship. Suddenly a player would start speaking to somebody else. By looking at the scoresheet I realised he was asking his captain whether he should take a draw. Of course I did not recognise the captain nor did I know what they were talking about.
Despite what has been said earlier on the forum, 8.1 makes it clear that algebraic notation must be used to conform to the FIDE Laws. Good arbiters give dispensation when requested to do so. The late Bob Wade told me many years ago that he had noticed a young foreign player had recorded the game in descriptive. When Bob remonstrated with him, the player said, 'Oh, I recorded in descriptive because I thought the English preferred that.'
Stewart Reuben