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Sealed move envelope lost -- question as to procedure
Sealed move envelope lost -- question as to procedure
My question concerns an historical situation at the Kingston Chess Club, from some 25 years ago.
I meant to ask it at the 2010 FIDE Arbiters course in Toronto, where I was a student under IA / IO Hal Bond and IA Stephen Boyd, but there wasn't a convenient way to do this. The course was great, I passed with high standing, and learned a lot, on the first occasion it was offered in Canada.
At this juncture, it is more a matter of getting some debate and precedent on the matter, rather than a needed decision to resolve a pending problem.
Sealed move envelope lost. What does precedent say concerning next steps?
I was a player in the game, my opponent sealed, and then the envelope went missing.
I have so many stories about sealed moves from back in the day (70's, 80's and 90's). I still shake my head in wonder. The first time I encountered the process of the sealed move in an envelope was as a player in 1974. It happened in a game (not mine) that I was watching between moves of my own game. The TD set up the sealed move process and went home not bothering to wait for the sealed move envelope. I too went home around the same time and found out the next morning that the player who had to seal had taken the envelope home with him as instructed! Can you imagine?
Another time at the same club a player sealed a move that was incorrect. He butchered the move by using a combination of descriptive notation and algebraic notation. The tournament director on seeing the move said: "This is ridiculous!" but then ruled that he should play a fresh move that was logical and thus continue the game.
At the KW club in 2004 the player made a sealed move and the TD put it in the envelope and then stored it in the cash box in the rolling cupboard for resumption at the next club meeting (one week away). At some point before resumption the cash box was broken into and the sealed move envelope and some petty cash was gone. The TD ruled that the game should continue and the player who sealed the move should make a fresh move.
Its a good thing that we now have FIDE and CFC workshops for arbiters and arbiter training.
From my own experience as TD (this would have been in the early 90's) it happened to me twice. Both times I assigned someone to be assistant TD as I had to leave early. and twice they lost the envelope. Both times I ruled that the game must continue and the player who sealed the move must make a fresh move.
My best experience was as a player. It was my first game against IM Lawrence Day. It was at the Triumph Hotel which was close to the intersection of 400 and the 401. The hotel closed at midnight and we were the last game going. I had gotten an advantage out of the opening and Lawrence had a chance to liquidate all his remaining pieces to stop my passed pawn leaving me with potential knight and bishop against bare king. FM Stephen Boyd was the TD and everything was done smoothly and according to the rules. Lawrence had to seal (Angie was impatiently waiting at the side of the room.) Lawrence was in the process of sealing his scoresheet when suddenly he leaned over and said: You do know how to checkmate with knight and bishop? and I replied: If I dont know how I will spend all night learning how. With that Lawrence resigned and I was spared having to show up early the next morning for resumption.
Its a good thing that we now have FIDE and CFC workshops for arbiters and arbiter training.
My understanding is that this is no longer covered. I haven't come across any material on "sealing a move" type adjournments since I've been involved in chess. Certainly not official materials, maybe some reference stories or interesting historical tidbits. Although I have had to seal a move at a tournament I played in, back in 2012. Also witnessed it being applied in 2022 in an endgame, on someone else's game.
Computers have gotten too good to make this type of adjournment possible. I suspect that if an aspiring arbiter asks an arbiter instructor on what to do in these situations, the response will be something like "don't put yourself in that position" -- in this case a time constraint with the venue that may not allow players to finish the game. The same answer a friend of mine got, when taking an FA seminar, got when he asked "but what if we don't have adequate arbiter supervision?" -- which has been the case for many tournaments across North America -- for when things go wrong due to not having enough arbiters.
Adjournments now probably happen due to extreme events. Fire alarms. Power going out. Situations that can hopefully just stall the game for a few minutes, players and arbiters step outside of the hall together while the situation is resolved, and hopefully games can be resumed. Similar to if it were to happen during an academic exam. Supervision while players are out, no communication, no consultation, no electronics.
An arbiter told me a story once, he was running a tournament in Peru some years back. During the round, there was a minor earthquake. Everything was shaking so everyone ran out of the building. Authorities made everyone wait for about an hour before going back in, just in case there would be any aftershocks (there weren't). Games were reconstructed from scoresheets, and clock times were adjusted best they could. When the arbiter was describing to the Organizer (who had stepped away for a couple of hours, during this incident) the whole story, and how the main challenge was to get some players to agree what the time on clocks should be when resuming, the organizer asked... "Why didn't you pause the clocks on your way out of the building?"
Thanks to Hans and Alex for sharing stories on this!!
I did expect to hear the argument that this no longer applies today, except in extraordinary circumstances, and I get that. But we are discussing an incident from 25 years ago, and what should have been the procedure undertaken back then with the Kingston Chess Club.
I am going to provide a post with some historical insight, relating back to the early 1960s, and the Tal vs Botvinnik World Championship matches, and then I will provide the game score of my game, and the discussion can continue from there.
As a tournament director of the Toronto Closed 45 years ago games were played 2 or 3 days a week. It was really hard to find a day when both players were available. Before the last round a player had to finish two adjourned games.
There is the legendary story of Dr George Berner protesting an adjournment at the 1967 Canadian Open in Hart House. I don't remember if the envelope was lost or tampered with. For the rest of the tournament he had carried Bristol boards with the details of the TDs unfairness to him.
In Canadian Championships players like Geza Fuster had played a 10-hour game that started at 4 pm, then in the morning complete an adjournment, thrn play the 10an final round.
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