chessico wrote:syzygy wrote:Black is clearly lost, but is awarded the win. No outrage to be found anywhere. Maybe Dvalishvili is not "special" and therefore nobody minds that the rules are applied to him?
Has nothing to do with beeing special or not.
Wrtiting down your moves before actually moving is forbidden now as an anti-cheating measure. (a second person could read the moves and test them with a computer and eventually interfere.)
So there would not have been an outrage had So been forfeited for repeatedly writing down his move in advance? I kind of doubt that...
I also very much doubt that the rule against writing down moves in advance was intended as an anti-cheating measure. Unless I'm mistaken, FIDE has only recently started to look into anti-(computer-)cheating measures, whereas the rule forbidding to write down the move before playing it appears to date from around 2007. But feel free to cite a source.
It seems far more likely that the rule was introduced to avoid that players change their mind after writing down the move. If a player writes down a move, thinks again, crosses out the move and plays a different move, then he is basically analysing the game with the help of pencil and paper.
Same thing with scribbling notes. Maybe it is innocent, maybe it is not. The opponent cannot know, so it is distracting. The solution is easy: forbid it altogether. Not a big deal, not difficult to follow, and a clear rule is clear.
I agree with the people who see Akobian in a less favourable light: It would clearly have been enough to tell Wesley that he does not want him to do that, and this even before the game, as they know each other quite well and have been playing in the same team et sim.
Ehm, if the opponent is Wesley So people should ask him
before the game starts to please stick to the rules?
Or do you mean that Akobian must have known about So's tendency to write notes and therefore had a duty to remind So of the rules? Why do you expect more from Akobian than from So? Because So is just a child, or because he is top 10, or is there another reason?
Before the game started, the arbiter had alreadty told So twice not to do it again and had made it clear that a third time would result in forfeit of the game. It was not enough. Why do you think So would have listened to Akobian, if he did not listen to the clear words of the arbiter, and he had been laughing away for years all the warnings that he had received from his coach and friends?
