06-09-2011, 09:59 AM
Navara is right handed so the chances of him doing more than a slight brushing of the king before touching the bishop is greatly reduced. With varifocal glasses, if you look through the wrong part of the lens then it can affect your co-ordination. This was not the case here.
I can understand a player if he thought a piece had been touched making a gesture before realising that it was not deliberate. Whilst not impossible this seems an unlikely senario in this case.
I'm struggling to see why FIDE seem to be making a virtue out of the actions of both players. Now if Moiseenko had declined the draw offer then we really would have witnessed good sportsmanship.
I've also seen that the clock, which was stopped by Navara, did not restart and that Moiseenko did not play too well between moves 35 and 40 possibly as a result of this. To my mind this would have been a more plausible explanation for Navara's subsequent draw offer but it doesn't seem to be the one being put forward.
I can understand a player if he thought a piece had been touched making a gesture before realising that it was not deliberate. Whilst not impossible this seems an unlikely senario in this case.
I'm struggling to see why FIDE seem to be making a virtue out of the actions of both players. Now if Moiseenko had declined the draw offer then we really would have witnessed good sportsmanship.
I've also seen that the clock, which was stopped by Navara, did not restart and that Moiseenko did not play too well between moves 35 and 40 possibly as a result of this. To my mind this would have been a more plausible explanation for Navara's subsequent draw offer but it doesn't seem to be the one being put forward.