| Sep-09-08 | | DCP23: The game was forfeited due to Malakhov's mobile phone ringing. He set it to a 'silent' profile prior to the game, but an alarm set in the phone went off anyway. |
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| Sep-16-08 | | patzer2: Too bad about the ringing cell phone. After 41...Rxc2  or 41...Rbc8 , Black would be winning. |
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Oct-04-14
 | | piltdown man: Don't these guys have people to mind their phones while they are playing? |
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Oct-04-14
 | | perfidious: Mind their phones? There are, unfortunately, too many people out there who do not display common courtesy when it comes to those devices, though that was not the case here. |
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Oct-04-14
| | piltdown man: <perfidious> All too true, sadly. But I thought that, knowing you'd forfeit the game, you'd turn the damn phone off, or at least have your second (Grandmasters have them, don't they), or, at least, your Mum, look after it. |
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Oct-04-14
 | | al wazir: 39...Qc4+ would have won: 40. Nb3 (40. Rb3 Bc1! 41. Rc2 Rxb3! 42. Nxb3 Rxa3+ 43. Kb1 Qxb3+ 44. Kxc1 Ra1+ 45. Kd2 Rxd1+) Rba8 41. Rc2 (41. Rb2 Bc1) Rxa3+ 42. Kb2 Ra2+ 43. Kb1 Qxb3+ 44. Rxb3 Ra1+ 45. Kb2 Rxd1. |
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| Oct-04-14 | | gars: About cell phones search "Bown's Bespoke-The Ten Commandments". |
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| Oct-04-14 | | Once: If <DCP23> is right, then maybe we shouldn't be too critical of Malakhov. It seems that he tried to turn his phone off but it managed to ring anyway. This may be a case of technology being too clever for its own good rather than Malakhov making a mistake. My so-called smart phone has an irritating habit of looking in my diary, working out where I need to be next and where I am right now, and then sending me a message to tell me that I need to leave now if I want to get there on time. I didn't ask it to do this. It's a built in feature of the phone. And maybe there's a way to turn it off that I haven't found yet. Who knows? Maybe one day phones will become intelligent enough to switch themselves off when they realise that we are playing chess. Now that would be a smart phone. |
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| Oct-04-14 | | morfishine: A very well played game by Malahkov. A pity after 41.Nb3, he has "no answer" |
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| Oct-04-14 | | kevin86: Did anybody see the Twilight Zone episode: The Jeopardy Room- where answering a phone meant instant death.? |
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Oct-04-14
| | perfidious: That is an episode I do not remember. |
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| Oct-04-14 | | waustad: Cell phone accidents are one reason that so many players wear watches. They can't use the machine as a clock, so just don't bring it. This reminds me of an event in Costa Rica a few years ago where the hosts of a doctor's convention asked everybody attending to check their cell phones/pagers before they entered the room. It seems about half were fakes, worn or carried as a status symbol. |
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| Oct-04-14 | | Everett: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_... |
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Oct-04-14
 | | Domdaniel: This has happened to me. I turn my phone off carefully, put it in my pocket ... and it rings anyway, mid-game. Embarrassing. I'll leave my phone with my, eh, second, in future. |
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| Oct-04-14 | | thegoodanarchist: <Once: ...
My so-called smart phone has an irritating habit of looking in my diary, working out where I need to be next and where I am right now, and then sending me a message to tell me that I need to leave now if I want to get there on time> ROTFL! This is hilarious. |
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| Oct-04-14 | | waustad: Soon enough there will be issues with watches. Giving tests I used to say no electronic devices, but non-native English speakers could use dictionaries. Somebody showed me an electronic dictionary and I allowed it. BTW, I wasn't trying to be mean, I was testing if they understood integer arithmetic on a computer where 1/2 -> 0 and 5/2 -> 2, and people who used calculators always got them wrong. |
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