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Here's my rant of the day, this happened to me in two games of the Labour Day.
In both cases my opponent decided it was my job to let them know if 40 moves for the 1st time control were reached, to do it on my time and to interrupt my concentration during my move to insist I tell them if 40 moves was reached. In the first case when I said it wasn't up to me to inform my opponent of whether they met the time control,with a bit of attitude I was told in no uncertain terms that I definitely was required to do so. Fortunately Bryan was able to clarify after that I was in no way required to do so. In one case the opponent was in time trouble, in the other there was still plenty of time on their clock, they just couldn't keep their score sheet straight.
In the second case it threw me off and I blundered into exchanging queens in an endgame where I knew my only hope was to keep the queens on the board. Of course they avoided using time on their clock to ask me. I have one of those scoresheet books, I wasn't hiding my scoresheet and as far as I know they could just have looked over at my scoresheet if they wanted to.
Learn how to keep a score sheet people and remember rule #1 - no talking to your opponent except to resign or offer a draw. Some of us old people prefer to think in silence for better concentration.
Funniest thing I saw during Labour Day, Opponent Late shows up after round started, maybe 2 or 3 mins, their clock is running as opponent On-Time started the clock when the TD said to do so. Opponent Late then begins to ask opponent On-Time if they would rather use his pieces and clock. Opponent On-Time acquieces to using the opponents clock, which is produced, set up as if no time had elapsed and the game is finally begun. At one point Opponent Late comes back to the board, says to Opponent On-Time something like wasn't that pawn there, to which Opponent On-Time says yes I moved it, now its your turn... I nearly burst out laughing.
In both cases my opponent decided it was my job to let them know if 40 moves for the 1st time control were reached, to do it on my time and to interrupt my concentration during my move to insist I tell them if 40 moves was reached. In the first case when I said it wasn't up to me to inform my opponent of whether they met the time control,with a bit of attitude I was told in no uncertain terms that I definitely was required to do so. Fortunately Bryan was able to clarify after that I was in no way required to do so. In one case the opponent was in time trouble, in the other there was still plenty of time on their clock, they just couldn't keep their score sheet straight.
In the second case it threw me off and I blundered into exchanging queens in an endgame where I knew my only hope was to keep the queens on the board. Of course they avoided using time on their clock to ask me. I have one of those scoresheet books, I wasn't hiding my scoresheet and as far as I know they could just have looked over at my scoresheet if they wanted to.
Learn how to keep a score sheet people and remember rule #1 - no talking to your opponent except to resign or offer a draw. Some of us old people prefer to think in silence for better concentration.
Funniest thing I saw during Labour Day, Opponent Late shows up after round started, maybe 2 or 3 mins, their clock is running as opponent On-Time started the clock when the TD said to do so. Opponent Late then begins to ask opponent On-Time if they would rather use his pieces and clock. Opponent On-Time acquieces to using the opponents clock, which is produced, set up as if no time had elapsed and the game is finally begun. At one point Opponent Late comes back to the board, says to Opponent On-Time something like wasn't that pawn there, to which Opponent On-Time says yes I moved it, now its your turn... I nearly burst out laughing.
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