Saturday, 10 November 2007

PDA Assisted Thinking

Just as the Doeberl Cup announced its rules in Mobile Phones/Electronic Devices, news has come in of a player being caught using Pocket Fritz on a PDA during a Dutch League match. The player concerned was rumbled by the arbiter, after going outside for some "fresh air". The player was instantly forfeited and banned from chess playing in or captaining a team in the Dutch League for the next 2 and a half years.
Full coverage of the incident is here at Chessvibes, and Chessbase looks at it as well.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let's be accurate, Shaun. He was banned from playing or captaining in the Dutch League. Not from chess entirely.

Shaun Press said...

Thanks for the correction. Lazy blogging (ie not reading the article fully) on my part.