04-05-2015, 11:22 AM
Firstly, you did exactly the right thing in not interfering in the game but informing the arbiters.
From your description I am not sure what the arbiters were doing. I can understand them being loathe to verify your story until after a time scramble. You do not say if both players were short of time at that point.
They may have had to balance the possibility of you being wrong with the effect that an interruption would have on the players.
Having said that, I would have hoped that a look at the scoresheets would have proved what you said and that they would have intervened.
When an irregularity is discovered then they should go back to the position before that. What they do with the clocks could be decided by the timetable of the tournament. They may give both players extra time of they may not. The formula for adjusting the clocks proportionally to the time used no longer applies automatically.
Simply replacing the pawn and continuing the game is unacceptable as alternative moves could have been played.
From your description I am not sure what the arbiters were doing. I can understand them being loathe to verify your story until after a time scramble. You do not say if both players were short of time at that point.
They may have had to balance the possibility of you being wrong with the effect that an interruption would have on the players.
Having said that, I would have hoped that a look at the scoresheets would have proved what you said and that they would have intervened.
When an irregularity is discovered then they should go back to the position before that. What they do with the clocks could be decided by the timetable of the tournament. They may give both players extra time of they may not. The formula for adjusting the clocks proportionally to the time used no longer applies automatically.
Simply replacing the pawn and continuing the game is unacceptable as alternative moves could have been played.