[tournament-org] Penalties for minor infringments ....

[Francis Roads]

When I served as chief referee at the European Congress in Dublin in 2002,
I was given copious notes about the rules in force, which at the time I
understood. But nowhere in all this bumf was there any infomation about
what to do if the rules were infringed. I somehow managed to keep most
people happy, adminstering the occasional reprimand. But yes, rules are
ineffective without sanctions, and this perhaps a matter for the BGA
Council to consider.

At the London Open a few years ago David Ward was fined £10 when his mobile
rang during a round, the money being donated to the Castledine-Barnes
Trust. Prrhaps that idea needs examining.

Regards, Francis

Somebody did a rules quiz for the Journal a couple of years ago and one of
the suggestions for good practice was to cover up the main bowl of stones
in overtime to prevent one being accidentally (or otherwise) played. Other
goodies:



A pass-stone in overtime has to be an overtime stone.



The entire move has to be completed - including removing captured stones
from the board - before pressing your clock, before the overtime period
runs out.



The clock has to be stopped after making the final move in overtime BEFORE
the flag falls.



Since your clock is not running while waiting for the opponent to move, the
next time you make a move you will either: stop the clock and count out
more overtime stones or make a move before stopping your clock. The choice
is yours.



The rules seem vague about whether you can stop your clock and count out
overtime stones IN ADDITION to any that you still have unplayed before the
flag falls



The rules seem vague about the end of main time - I don’t think it says
whether the first set of overtime stones has to be counted out BEFORE the
flag falls in normal time or WHEN the flag falls. Given that the accuracy
of an analogue clock is lower than we might like, it seems arbitrary when
maintime actually finishes.



Your offender did not break the rule that says: a player who fails to play
all the overtime stones within the overtime period loses the game on time.
The loss is immediate - the opponent does not need to 'claim' a win.



Time for dinner.



Neil



*From:* Christopher Kirkham via tournament-org <tournament-org at lists.britgo.
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*Sent:* 25 October 2018 17:25
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*Subject:* [tournament-org] Penalties for minor infringments ....



At the Northern last Sunday, I received a complaint from 1 of the players
that his opponent had taken a stone from the bowl rather than the
counted-out stones during a period of Canadian overtime. In this case it
was after exhausting the pile of counted-out stones, but that is, I
believe, not particularly significant. What should I have done? Should I
have awarded the game to the complainer? Fortunately the complainer didn't
seem to require that, and the culprit was convincing in claiming it was
inadvertent, so I warned the culprit not to do it again, and let the game
continue. The complainer, who was also in byo-yomi, resigned shortly
after.  The real question, though, is what penalties are there short of
forfeiting the game? Is there any established system for this? If not,
should we have a "yellow-card" and "red-card" system for such minor
infringements? If we do that, is the scope of a "yellow-card" the game or
the whole tournament?



Chris Kirkham

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