Wesley So resigned after 6 moves

Well, now I feel crazy.

This is still being discussed?

Good observation, I used to enjoy kermit, got closer to grover when I learned to pee in a toilet, then Oscar the grouch opened the possibilities, Big Bird was a homeless park wreck and after I sang ""Mah-Na Mah-Na" I got hooked on animal and those old guys.

Which is why So should be ashamed. He was told exactly what would happen. Not only by the arbiter on the previous days, but years ago, by his trainers.

Did the arbiter actually tell So after the first warning(s) that he would be forfeited if it occured again ? 

I wasn't there, I don't know.

But that's a good point. Maybe he thought he would be punished a different way?

Still seems fairly disrespectful on So's part.

leiph18 wrote:

I wasn't there, I don't know.

But that's a good point. Maybe he thought he would be punished a different way?

Still seems fairly disrespectful on So's part.

And stupid, you forgot stupid😁

The facts of the case don't seem to be in dispute. The TD apparently did threaten the forfeiture. I've read several GMs' opinions that state it was a mistake for the arbiter to paint himself into a corner. Once the nuclear threat was made, he couldn't go back and just give a time penalty, for example.

The situation is complicated by the latest revelations posted on chessbase. So comes off as an insecure kid who writes all sorts of notes to himself. These were psychological aids. I don't know if other players complained about the notes, but it's interesting that many players seem to blame Akobian more than So in this matter.

The arbiter told him to not write on the score sheet ( he wrote in the score sheet in the previous warnings afaik)

Wesley thought that it was still okay to write notes so now he decided to write it on the move sheet.

Arbiter thought whereever he wrote it was the exact same thing so he decided to forfeit him anyway.

If the arbiter clarified that writing notes anywhere is illegal then this wouldn't have happened.

So knew the rules.

"it's interesting that many players seem to blame Akobian more than So in this matter."

Don't shoot the messenger.

Holy crap, is that Aronian on the right?  Cool stuff!!

After So's victory over Kamsky on round 10, Maurice Ashley interviewed So. Few questions & answers were revealing (not verbatim):

1. Were not you warned not to write notes but you still did? I was warned to write only game scores and time on the score sheet. I wrote note on a separte paper. I was not sure about the rules.

2. Do you dispute the forfeit and/or its consequence on your rating? Do you stand by the arbitrer's decision to forfeit you? I wrote to request clarification about how could a loss by forfeit affect rating. I agree with the decision to forfeit me.

3. You and Akobian are friends, and the opportunity to play against someone of your caliber does not come everyday. Do you think Akobian did not want to play you or what happened?

Obviously, Akobian wanted a free point.

4. That is a big claim. You said you guys were teammates and friends?

We were. But, I guess, from now, I go by the rules.

Nakamura called So's comments on Akobian just wanting a free point "very shameful and disrespectful" and meant that he shouldn't blame others than himself for his own breaking the rules.

Nakamura really needs to shut his mouth.  I remember in the World Blitz how he was trying for a free point against Carlsen anyway when he tried to protest about some pieces being briefly knocked over.

I wonder if the rule can be made a joke of just by making the action of writing but not actually writing.  The problem with this idea of some small thing being distracting is where does it really end?  Why should chess players be allowed to eat or drink at the board, that could be distracting.  Moving about too much could be distracting.  Breathing too heavily could be distracting.  They really need to modernise chess and just let players play rather than bringing in out of date technicalities.  If you want it to be a sport rather than some archaic past-time that's what's needed.  Why should you have to cater for people who have weak concentration?  You don't do that in any other sport.

"The problem with this idea of some small thing being distracting is where does it really end?"

With people trying to follow the rules?

Whatever is written down is in your head and so there for the game, it's not from any outside source. You could say otherwise that players shouldn't write down their moves now (it's automatically recorded) as that reminds them of castling or some other play in the game.  And anyway if all So wrote down was to remind himself to check variations that is even more ridiculous. 

But not writing just pretending to write could also act as a useful memory device, so maybe that will be banned as well.  Are you allowed to move your lips to enhance some kind of memorization?  Adjust your clothing as some kind of code, or your food/drink to not forget some particular thing?  Even the way your moves are written down could be done in such a way that you remind yourself if you have looked down a certain set of variations.

Agree 100% with the Danish traitor :-)

I love the fake writing comment ! A pen with no ink works good too. 

I give zero credence to anything coming out of Nakamura's mouth.  He has a talent for chess, but little else. 0/10 in socialization ability.  Like a vile opportunist, he is simply tearing down a potential rival, and the only one he really has in the U.S.

His next commercial endorsement should come from a kidney dialysis manufacturer, as he is going to need one, if he keeps swishing around that vile brew of his. 

Are you the guy who got banned, and kept creating new accounts?