(This has already been posted on SCCU and Atticus forums, so apologies to those who have already seen this posting).
In recent club matches, the following two events have occurred. I would be interested to hear if the first in particular had been experienced by anyone else. How best should these be resolved?
Playing with digital clocks:
In one match recently, after about 45 minutes play, a player inadvertently pressed the “+1†button and somehow reset the clock completely. In another recent match, in a time scramble with both players down to two minutes or less, the clock display died and then, on inspection when lifted up, came back on as though it had just been switched on (we think the batteries must have become dislodged when one player accidentally moved the clock slightly). In both cases, all the players behaved in sporting fashion and reset the clocks to what they though to be the correct time remaining for each player. However, with less sporting players, this could present a real problem. How should this be solved in most “normal†games (i.e. with no arbiter present)? Even with an arbiter present, in most weekend tournaments, an arbiter could not possibly the follow the time progress of each and every game anyway.
Adjournment communication:
Player A adjourned a pawn down with a worse position to boot against player B. Rather than facing another evening out and a journey to play on a game he was likely to lose after a couple of hours, Player A later left a message on Player B’s mobile phone to say that he was resigning. However, the match result was no longer in doubt following other adjournments, so rather than “facing another evening out and a journey to grind out a win etc,†as above, Player B sent an offer of a draw to Player A. Shortly afterwards, Player B checked his messages and found his opponent’s resignation! Any views from experienced arbiters? Loss or draw?
Two Unusual (?) Occurrences
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Stewart Reuben
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The DGT XL is much more reliable than earlier models.
Cases of the entire display vanishing or the lever being correctly pressed, but the clocks continuing to run have occurred. I have seen them happen with the eralier versions.
All electronic equipment suffers from such problems. If you use the DGT electronic board, the infvormation will be stored elsehere, possibly in another country! Failing that one simple does the best one can.
In the adjournment A lost.
If his message preceded B's then it takes precedence. If B's message came first, then A refused it by resigning. The fact that he may not have known about the draw offer is irrelevant.
Stewart Reuben
Cases of the entire display vanishing or the lever being correctly pressed, but the clocks continuing to run have occurred. I have seen them happen with the eralier versions.
All electronic equipment suffers from such problems. If you use the DGT electronic board, the infvormation will be stored elsehere, possibly in another country! Failing that one simple does the best one can.
In the adjournment A lost.
If his message preceded B's then it takes precedence. If B's message came first, then A refused it by resigning. The fact that he may not have known about the draw offer is irrelevant.
Stewart Reuben