The Laws of Chess

[Ianbrownlee]

You leave them in your pocket and Don't play with them in the playing hall. Read the last part where I said

So at the start of each round the arbiter does a public warning to all en mass who have a phone with them. That should cover it nicely?

If you look at the schedule of punishments available to an Arbiter, warning is one of them. Covers the laws nicely methinks...

if you use that as a prerequisite then that's fine but players will need to know that before a tournament unless Scotland uses that as a standard for all tournaments and possibly league tournaments. Is this a matter for the AGM then as a motion could be placed suggesting a player can enter a playing venue with the phone switched off. Players have to be protected as well as arbiters, and what about tournaments such as the Nancy Elder etc , does this have to be set into the rules. In this fast moving society we find ourselves in, most people have mobile phones to the point we forget we carry them and most of us have jobs where phones are an essential part of communication. A simple set of rules is what we need