18-04-2014, 06:32 AM
robin moore Wrote:Andy,
As it's an incremental time control, I thought you had to keep recording till the end of the game?
If in doubt I find its always best to read the rules. I quote from the FIDE rule book in force up to 30th June 2014
8.4
If a player has less than five minutes left on his clock at some stage in a period and does not have additional time of 30 seconds or more added with each move, then for the remainder of the period he is not obliged to meet the requirements of Article 8.1. Immediately after one flag has fallen the player must update his scoresheet completely before moving a piece on the chessboard.
So with 20 seconds increments the need to record disappears when remaining time falls below 5 minutes. What is not clear is what happens if a player stops recording and then gain enough time with 20 second increments that he has more than 5 minutes again.
I haven't read the rule book that comes into force on the 1st of July- with some of the rule changes that we've heard about - anything could be in there.