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Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 6:35 am
by Jonathan Bryant
Several hours into the first round of the Prague Summer Open, one competitor used his mobile phone to take selfies.
Is this the most egregious flouting of the 'No Mobile Phones' Rule in modern chess?
Re: Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 11:20 pm
by Nevil Chan
Presumably he could have got around the rule by asking his opponent to take it for him..?
Re: Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 9:49 am
by Alex Holowczak
Nevil Chan wrote:Presumably he could have got around the rule by asking his opponent to take it for him..?
It wouldn't have been a selfie then, would it?
Re: Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 11:32 am
by Jonathan Bryant
Alex Holowczak wrote:Nevil Chan wrote:Presumably he could have got around the rule by asking his opponent to take it for him..?
It wouldn't have been a selfie then, would it?
The selfie taker had his baseball cap on backwards this morning. The youth of today etc.
Re: Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 12:13 pm
by Michael Farthing
Which way round do you mean Jonathan? The correct way to wear a baseball cap is the wrong way round, isn't it? [Whichever way that is].
Re: Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 10:05 pm
by Sean Hewitt
Jonathan Bryant wrote:Is this the most egregious flouting of the 'No Mobile Phones' Rule in modern chess?
I see your selfie, and raise you the chap who had his propped up on the table next to the clock, watching the F1 Grand Prix.