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Clock settings - sound and alarm?
Posted By: Henrik Bukkjaer In Response To: Clock settings - sound and alarm? (Michael Nielsen)
Date: Tuesday, 27 November 2012, at 12:26 a.m.
>> Of course. Are you saying, that in chess you're allowed to play on until your opponent notices (and a TD wouldn't intervene if he saw it)?
You're supposed to use the clock in this manner, yes. The chess clock rules are specifically written with this in mind:
1) They don't allow clocks with sound signals (alarm for certain time left of out of time). It's specifically mentioned in the FIDE clock test procedure.
2) In rapid, speed and blitz chess tournaments, the rules state that a TD must NOT make players aware if a clock has run out. Only if BOTH players clocks has run out, he must stop the game and declare a draw.
3) The procedure for claiming a victory in the above tournaments, are as follows: A player must stop the clock and claim a victory based on time - the referee (or opponent) must concur and the players own time must NOT have run out at the point where he stopped the clock to claim his victory.
4) For "normal" paced chess, I suppose that a TD are allowed to intervene and call a victory, if he notice that time has run out. But I'm not sure if he's only allowed to, or if he would indeed do so.
5) A chess TD is specifically NOT allowed to call to a players attention, if his opponent has moved (without him noticing), or if he has forgotten to hit the plunger after moving himself. In both cases the players time is running, but the player is not aware of this.
I think - or rather I know - that some players use the "chess approach" because the rules in backgammon are very unclear, and because they feel it's the natural way to handle a clock, having played tons or speed chess before. But for non-chess players it might not be so obvious, which bring me to the "legal move" type problem.
Tom K says he would concede if he noticed his time ran out. On the other hand, he acknowledges that if nobody draw attention to the fact that time has run out, the game could still be won (the regular way!), because you cannot dispute a win/gin on the board, but time expiration is not something you can determine for sure. Now, what if Tom K's opponent is one that wouldn't draw attention to his own time expiring? He would then have an unsportsmanlike advantage, simply claiming he didn't notice! Just like if you play legal moves, and one side adheres but the other doesn't, when it's not in his favor!
PS: In a situation where you have one TD per board (in chess), the rule stating that the TD is not allowed to intervene at time expiration is not in effect.
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