Skákstjórar í brennidepli - tap dæmt fyrir skrifa leiki fyrirfram

Dómgæsla á skákmótum hefur verið í brennidepli síðustu daga. Skák.is hefur bæði greint frá Wesley So-málinu á bandaríska meistaramótinu og svo varð georískur stórmeistari uppvís af svindli í Dubai nýlega með því að nota sér skákforrit í snjallsíma til hjálpar.

Þriðja dæmið um nýlega dómgæslu átti sér stað á Aeroflot Open þegar tap var dæmt á keppenda fyrir að skrifa niður leikinn á skorblaðið áður en hann lék en slíkt er bannað.

Grípum í umfjöllun rússneska stórmeistarans Dmitry Kryakvin um atvikið á bloggsíðu hans en frásögn var þýdd á Chess24.

In the eighth round of the side event there was a scandal with a very curious pretext. It took place in the encounter between a legend of Moscow chess, IM Pavel Dvalishvili (2439) and his Azerbaijan colleague IM Orkhan Abdulov (2337).

The game was very tense from the opening moves – with two rounds to go the players had +2 and the encounter would mean the winner had chances of taking one of the main prizes worth a few thousand euro, while the loser would be fighting over crumbs in a foreign currency. Later Dvalishvili would claim that from the very first moves the Azerbaijan player acted arrogantly and provocatively. Abdulov countered by saying that Pavel did everything he could to interrupt his thought processes, writing his move down on the scoresheet in advance and sliding it across to try and gauge the reaction of his opponent. Dvalishvili, meanwhile, took his visually impaired certificate out of his pocket and claimed that he’d had nothing of the sort in mind.

The essence of the confrontation was as follows. Abdulov’s position became absolutely lost (moreover, there was a still a long way until the time control – Black hadn’t made it out of the opening), but at the same time the Azerbaijan master appealed to the arbiter on a number of occasions, since Dvalishvili was writing down his move on the scoresheet before he made it. And after another such episode he demanded that his opponent be forfeited. The arbiters rushed to the scene, the game was stopped and the players were taken out into the corridor – what happened there could only be guessed at from some exclamations. Soon the Chief Arbiter Geurt Gijssen also arrived, and they translated from Russian to English to explain the problem that had arisen. And Gijssen, in full accordance with the rules, gave Dvalishvili a zero. It turns out that if a player, despite a warning from the arbiter, continues to write down his moves before he makes them on the board then he can face a tough punishment. Apparently the third time it happens. But did you know about that rule?

I’ll be honest. I felt really sorry for Pasha, although in the bigger picture he’s only got himself to blame for not correcting his behaviour after the first warning. In the end Abdulov won the last game and came 4th, while Dvalishvili only managed to make it into the last “aero-bonuses”. 

Þessi regla um að ekki mætti skrifa leikin fyrirfram var sett fyrir um áratug síðan. Dæmi voru um að vissir skákmenn misnotuðu þetta frelsi t.a.m. geta leikið hratt í tímahraki og jafnvel til þess að sýna "hjálpurum" leikinn til að fá þeirra álit. Því miður er það oft svo að svörtu sauðirnir skemma fyrir hinum.

Sé frásögnin hér að ofan er ritstjóri sammála úrskurði skákstjóra um að dæma tap. Að brjóta af sér þrisvar sinnum í sömu skák er ekki ásættanlegt.

Þess má geta að atvik þar sem skákmaður skrifaði leikina niður fyrirfram kom upp á Reykjavíkurskákmótinu 2012 (Stelios Halkias og Gawain Jones). Um það var fjallað ítarlega í New In Chess (2012#3).