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Not reminding your opponent to press the clock
Posted By: Timothy Chow In Response To: Not reminding your opponent to press the clock (Tom Keith)
Date: Friday, 26 December 2014, at 11:48 p.m.
Tom Keith wrote:
What would happen in chess if someone forgot to hit the clock? Would his opponent just go ahead, think for a while, then move, all while the first player's clock is still running?
Yes, as far as I know, this is standard practice. There was a famous example in the Kasparov–Karpov match in 1987. Of course the issue is debated from time to time, and something similar came up fairly recently in the context of the 2008 U.S. Women's Championship.
Pointing out that your opponent forgot to hit the clock in chess is roughly analogous to pointing out that your opponent made an illegal move (when the illegal move is in your favor) in backgammon, when legal moves are not in force. You won't be considered unsportsmanlike for not doing it, but you may be admired for going above and beyond the call of duty.
I guess you could pretend to be thinking about doubling and intentionally run down the time before pointing out the clock, but that does seem rather unseemly.
Yes, that was the scenario I described in my original post.
Whether it's unseemly is in the eye of the beholder. This thread has shown where the emotions of most people in the BG community lie, and I can accept that. However, I still don't accept that there is anything intrinsically unsportsmanlike about this kind of behavior. It is unsportsmanlike if and only if the community regards it as unsportsmanlike. In particular, I do not agree with Mochy that the chess community is "wrong," any more than the BG community is "wrong."
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