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Mobile Phones update

Mon, 13 September 2010 08:57:53
Peter Stiff

RE:Mobile Phones update
The Leamington League Committee met in August.

It was agreed that the proposal carried at the AGM "that we should follow ECF and FIDE by enforcing a loss on any player whose mobile phone goes off during a game" amounted to an alteration to the Rules of Matchplay. After some debate the following wording, based on Article 12.3b of the Laws, was adopted:-
 
Mobile Phones
Without the mutual consent of both captains, a player is forbidden to have a mobile phone or other electronic means of communication in the playing venue, unless they are completely switched off.  If any such device produces a sound, the player shall lose the game.  The opponent shall win.  However, if the opponent cannot win the game by any legal series of moves, then he/she will get half a point, the offender zero.  (This rule is mandatory and cannot be waived by a generous opponent.)
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