
PS It did happen - but he was joking.
PPS I suppose it is a genuinely feasible way of cheating.
In England at least, I feel that there would be an implied permission for you to wear a watch and have your car keys in your pocket, unless the event Regulations stipulated otherwise.Ian Thompson wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:10 amThere 's a claim here that anything with a battery in it meets the definition of an "electronic device" in the Laws, in an article explaining why a player was defaulted for wearing a battery operated watch.
The FIDE Laws are deficient because they do not define what is meant by an "electronic device" in the glossary, or anywhere else.
If the author's opinion is correct it would be illegal for me to have my car keys with me while playing.
Yes it is. On a future occasion an arbiter who wishes to examine your hearing aids may not be jokingMichael Farthing wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 7:40 amThere was no mass walkout on my behalf when the chief arbiter at a congress a week ago suggested to me that my hearing aids should be electonically scanned
PS It did happen - but he was joking.
PPS I suppose it is a genuinely feasible way of cheating.
India is the home of arbiters - and the regulations they are obliged to enforce - finding new and original ways of defaulting players to stop them playing chess. I'm sure English arbiters have many faults, but this isn't one of them.
Possibly the same player, or a different one with an equivalent problem, but an intermittent beep was accepted by the 4NCL arbiters.Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:58 amI do know a player who has an insulin pump, so he has to explain to opponents that it might go "beep" occasionally. Obviously, he can't switch that off. Luckily, everybody has just accepted this.