WEBVTT 00:00.870 --> 00:01.500 Hi there. 00:01.670 --> 00:08.490 And I want to clarify, when you play online chess, when I do, I'm sometimes even looking at my phone. 00:09.120 --> 00:11.450 I'm checking my emails while playing an online game. 00:12.270 --> 00:12.990 And it's great. 00:13.110 --> 00:15.690 I kind of like online chats with that part of you. 00:16.200 --> 00:19.270 But, you know, when you go to a real tournament, you shouldn't even take your phone with you. 00:19.290 --> 00:22.560 And I've actually been forfeited in a real world tournament. 00:23.220 --> 00:28.950 The Bonnet Congress, for example, my local club organizes by the Congress and I was forced to my own 00:28.950 --> 00:30.990 clubs tournaments in a winning position. 00:30.990 --> 00:32.310 My phone made a noise. 00:32.310 --> 00:33.600 Maybe it was low battery or something. 00:33.840 --> 00:35.490 I thought I'd turned it off. 00:36.120 --> 00:36.660 Yes. 00:37.710 --> 00:40.920 Let me do the suffering for you guys to learn in this course. 00:40.920 --> 00:45.530 I thought I'd turn the phone off my opponent and losing position said, what was that? 00:45.570 --> 00:48.590 Was that you on your phone making that noise? 00:49.020 --> 00:50.100 And I was horrified. 00:50.790 --> 00:52.530 And yes, he claimed the game. 00:53.460 --> 00:57.780 And the lesson is just don't take your phone with you. 00:58.530 --> 01:03.120 Do not take your phone with you to a tournament venue. 01:03.390 --> 01:06.900 Just don't take the risk even if you think you've turned off. 01:07.050 --> 01:07.670 What if you didn't? 01:07.950 --> 01:13.260 What if you've turned off but something and alerts on some unexpected reason? 01:13.710 --> 01:16.110 Why would you want to take unnecessary risk? 01:16.350 --> 01:18.150 Don't take unnecessary risk. 01:20.460 --> 01:27.090 It's got to spend hours traveling somewhere, potentially hours playing a game of eight hours in a winning 01:27.090 --> 01:27.570 position. 01:27.570 --> 01:30.750 And then this beep goes off and you get forfeited. 01:32.280 --> 01:34.170 Please spare yourself the suffering. 01:34.290 --> 01:40.850 You know, you could have learned you could have spent the whole day, you know, watching 42 on YouTube, 01:40.860 --> 01:45.660 very informative channel instead of sort of spending just eight hours in some professional venue just 01:45.660 --> 01:48.930 to lose a game on your phone beeping when you thought it was turned off. 01:49.140 --> 01:50.690 So I hope you get the picture. 01:53.020 --> 01:55.270 Just don't take your phone with you to a tournament venue. 01:55.300 --> 01:57.930 The rules are getting stricter in chess about distractions. 01:58.960 --> 02:01.060 We're in a modern technology world. 02:01.060 --> 02:06.910 Imagine if everyone took their phones and was having all these text alerts and, you know, you wouldn't 02:06.910 --> 02:08.170 be able to concentrate on anything. 02:08.200 --> 02:11.680 It's like when there's distractions, when there's noise. 02:12.820 --> 02:19.960 I find that when I'm screaming, if I start telling jokes and stories, my tactics goes from about 2500. 02:20.650 --> 02:27.990 I like to think my tactics to about six hundred if I'm lucky, if I start telling a funny story. 02:28.570 --> 02:31.740 So when I'm focused on a position, I want to be focused. 02:32.500 --> 02:32.970 Yeah. 02:33.700 --> 02:37.450 And if the opponent, by the way, starts distracting me against the rules of chess. 02:37.450 --> 02:37.810 Yes. 02:37.810 --> 02:38.890 It's in the Fryday handbook. 02:39.020 --> 02:43.480 If they start doing annoying draws, you should stop the clocks and go and get an arbiter and say to 02:43.480 --> 02:45.270 them, look, my opponent's limit distracting. 02:45.520 --> 02:46.300 Stop that. 02:46.300 --> 02:46.690 Yeah. 02:47.260 --> 02:49.060 So, yeah, you should expect. 02:50.910 --> 02:57.420 No distractions as well, and you should not introduce distractions into the tournament when you leave 02:57.420 --> 03:05.370 your telephone or as I say, just phone nowadays, leave your mobile phone at home, that's the safest. 03:06.910 --> 03:09.330 Yeah, OK, point made. 03:09.330 --> 03:10.620 I hope that's so much.