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?
Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
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Jonathan Bryant
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Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
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Nevil Chan
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Re: Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
Presumably he could have got around the rule by asking his opponent to take it for him..?
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Re: Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
It wouldn't have been a selfie then, would it?Nevil Chan wrote:Presumably he could have got around the rule by asking his opponent to take it for him..?
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Jonathan Bryant
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Re: Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
The selfie taker had his baseball cap on backwards this morning. The youth of today etc.Alex Holowczak wrote:It wouldn't have been a selfie then, would it?Nevil Chan wrote:Presumably he could have got around the rule by asking his opponent to take it for him..?
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Re: Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
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].
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Re: Mobile Phones: Zero Tolerance?
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.Jonathan Bryant wrote:Is this the most egregious flouting of the 'No Mobile Phones' Rule in modern chess?