Hi there.
And I want to clarify, when you play online chess, when I do, I'm sometimes even looking at my phone.
I'm checking my emails while playing an online game.
And it's great.
I kind of like online chats with that part of you.
But, you know, when you go to a real tournament, you shouldn't even take your phone with you.
And I've actually been forfeited in a real world tournament.
The Bonnet Congress, for example, my local club organizes by the Congress and I was forced to my own
clubs tournaments in a winning position.
My phone made a noise.
Maybe it was low battery or something.
I thought I'd turned it off.
Yes.
Let me do the suffering for you guys to learn in this course.
I thought I'd turn the phone off my opponent and losing position said, what was that?
Was that you on your phone making that noise?
And I was horrified.
And yes, he claimed the game.
And the lesson is just don't take your phone with you.
Do not take your phone with you to a tournament venue.
Just don't take the risk even if you think you've turned off.
What if you didn't?
What if you've turned off but something and alerts on some unexpected reason?
Why would you want to take unnecessary risk?
Don't take unnecessary risk.
It's got to spend hours traveling somewhere, potentially hours playing a game of eight hours in a winning
position.
And then this beep goes off and you get forfeited.
Please spare yourself the suffering.
You know, you could have learned you could have spent the whole day, you know, watching 42 on YouTube,
very informative channel instead of sort of spending just eight hours in some professional venue just
to lose a game on your phone beeping when you thought it was turned off.
So I hope you get the picture.
Just don't take your phone with you to a tournament venue.
The rules are getting stricter in chess about distractions.
We're in a modern technology world.
Imagine if everyone took their phones and was having all these text alerts and, you know, you wouldn't
be able to concentrate on anything.
It's like when there's distractions, when there's noise.
I find that when I'm screaming, if I start telling jokes and stories, my tactics goes from about 2500.
I like to think my tactics to about six hundred if I'm lucky, if I start telling a funny story.
So when I'm focused on a position, I want to be focused.
Yeah.
And if the opponent, by the way, starts distracting me against the rules of chess.
Yes.
It's in the Fryday handbook.
If they start doing annoying draws, you should stop the clocks and go and get an arbiter and say to
them, look, my opponent's limit distracting.
Stop that.
Yeah.
So, yeah, you should expect.
No distractions as well, and you should not introduce distractions into the tournament when you leave
your telephone or as I say, just phone nowadays, leave your mobile phone at home, that's the safest.
Yeah, OK, point made.
I hope that's so much.