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Director's ruling at the Chicago Open...

Posted By: Colin Owen
Date: Thursday, 2 June 2016, at 1:23 p.m.

In Response To: Director's ruling at the Chicago Open... (Florin Popa)

"Also pushing the clock is part of the game as it is in chess, if you forget to do it some penalty should exist in the same way as for an illegal move, some seconds on the clock looks fair in my opinion."

It seems curious, because a player has (seemingly) forgotten to press his clock after making a move, thereby running it down needlessly, that he should then be penalised further with a fixed time penalty! Isn't there already a built in penalty for doing this? And couldn't he then just claim that he was still considering his play (which, perhaps he was)?

For sure, it might be irritating for an opponent to have to point this out, more than once or twice, but a (further) time penalty seems a strange outcome.

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