From chessninja.com
"Update in a bit, but wanted to share what happened in Radjabov-Smeets (1/2). Radjabov played 39.Re7 but knocked the piece over and hit his clock. Smeets pressed his clock and said something like "correct the piece." Radjabov then flagged. In the ensuing mess, the arbiters couldn't decide what exactly should have been done since both players had infractions. You have to correct a piece on your own time and you can't speak to your opponent. Apparently you are supposed to stop the clocks and then you'll get a time bonus, but it's hard to imagine anyone having the sang froid to do that with a few seconds left even if you knew that's what you're supposed to do. And had Smeets done that it's quite possible Radjabov would have been physically able to make his 40th move and had a winning position."
Evidently the FIDE rules are not totally clear on this, based on the subsequent discussion at chessninja.
It doesn't make sense to me to have to go fetch an arbiter when your opponent knocks over a bunch of pieces in a time scramble. Shouldn't the player just consider the opponent's move illegal and hit the clock back? What would the IAs on here rule if say X has 10 seconds on his clock, makes a move, knocks down a bunch of pieces and Y immediately hit the clock back forcing X to fix the board before X could hit the clock, thus completing the move?
"Update in a bit, but wanted to share what happened in Radjabov-Smeets (1/2). Radjabov played 39.Re7 but knocked the piece over and hit his clock. Smeets pressed his clock and said something like "correct the piece." Radjabov then flagged. In the ensuing mess, the arbiters couldn't decide what exactly should have been done since both players had infractions. You have to correct a piece on your own time and you can't speak to your opponent. Apparently you are supposed to stop the clocks and then you'll get a time bonus, but it's hard to imagine anyone having the sang froid to do that with a few seconds left even if you knew that's what you're supposed to do. And had Smeets done that it's quite possible Radjabov would have been physically able to make his 40th move and had a winning position."
Evidently the FIDE rules are not totally clear on this, based on the subsequent discussion at chessninja.
It doesn't make sense to me to have to go fetch an arbiter when your opponent knocks over a bunch of pieces in a time scramble. Shouldn't the player just consider the opponent's move illegal and hit the clock back? What would the IAs on here rule if say X has 10 seconds on his clock, makes a move, knocks down a bunch of pieces and Y immediately hit the clock back forcing X to fix the board before X could hit the clock, thus completing the move?
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