The curious controversial case of shouting in between the game

This happened in the 17th round of World Blitz Championships 2022. With the white pieces we have GM Adly Ahmed (2605) and with the black pieces we have FM Nikolay Averin (2231). Adly's flag had fallen (time was up) but he was not happy with what had happened. He called the arbiter about what had affected him. Three players had stood behind his opponent and shouted when he had very few seconds, is what Adly claims. And that's the reason why he lost on time. He wanted his issue to be addressed. The ball was now in arbiters court. Have a look at the video to see what they decided.

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[KanwarPrez]

that guy calculated the whole book of moves when arbiters were busy in concluding decision.

[markd.]

Once I was in the park and got the chance to play Magnus. By move six I was down two pieces and three pawns. Just then a car horn sounded across the street. It was very distracting. Luckily these same arbitrators were nearby and decided to make a ruling. They discussed this for 25 minutes allowing me to study the board completely. When play resumed, I got checkmated on the very next move.

[gamingforever]

The Fact that the norwegian reporter is holding the mic to everyone that's speaking is Beyond hilarious 🤣

[Rybr]

11:02 Ttranslated this conversation on Russian:

Averin: He said like some of you two speaked too loudly, but in fact it wasn't.
1st kid: We did not say anything! Wait, Kolya! Why is it draw?!
Averin: They gave him 5 seconds more.
1st kid: So what? There is h4 move and it's completely winning!
2nd kid: Kolya, tell me he dropped the flag?
Averin: Yes.
1st kid: It's a nonsense!
Averin: And i didn't get why we replayed this move.
1st kid: We didn't say anything! Didn't say a word!
Averin: Well, it's appeal.
2nd kid: He is an adult so they belived him because of it. We are allegedly kids. Understand?
Averin: You were so far and you were silent!
2nd kid: Yeah! Artem just did like this and nothing more. So what? You even didn't watch it.
Averin: Exactly!
2nd kid: This is so nonsense!

[ManhattanProject]

A: 01:10 The child literally admits that the friend "screamed" something but disputes the distance from which he said it. ("he was very far and he screamed" and proceeds to shrug)

B: 02:30 While the arbiters are deliberating the child opens the dialogue and insinuates to the GM that had the GM not been in time trouble, the GM would not have made an issue about the shout. "if you had time you would not seen that he screamed" (sic)

03:30 The child again admits that while his friend screamed "he was very far".

C: 05:50 The arbiter disagrees with the child that his friend was "very far", saying "1 meter is not far". The arbiter also alleges that this is not the first time this has happened in this very tournament after disputing the child's assertion that his friend was very far. Finally, the arbiter claims he was present throughout the situation: "I was here, it was the last game so I was not somewhere else".

D: 11:00 When the child tells his friend that the arbiter gave the GM "five seconds"(*not* accurate) the friend's initial response is not to dispute the veracity of the penalty but instead to shift the focus that the position was still clearly winning for the child "after h4" (I don't speak Russian--I'm basing this on the Russian translation from commenter below).

It's only after the child ignores the friend's claim does the friend deny anything was even said. Paradoxically, the child later goes on to say his friend was "over there and silent the whole time" contradicting his concession to the GM and arbiter only minutes earlier.

[danielb]

10:11 they ended up with more spectators than a Magnus/HIkaru game

[delboy]

I think it'd have been much better to take the 2 players away to a quieter area to discuss this, away from the board, away from the people, and away from the cameras if possible. I know some arbiters in the UK who do this. The minute or two walking to somewhere else gives the players a chance to calm themselves as well if needed.

[gamingstylejutsu]

Damn that kid’s confidence is 100x of mine

[iharshbrown]

TLDW adult accuses kid's friend of screaming about time which costed him the game while kid argues that the friend was far. Arbiter decided that the kid was wrong and gave adult 2s extra. Game ended with a draw

[hellostranger]

You get 0.5 point but you lose respect

[pierinavi]

“My friend he dont speak English. He can’t say “it’s time, ” even if he wanted to.”

Brilliant.

[countstoneula]

5:47 Adly after hearing the decision immediately focuses on the board again and spends the next four and a half minutes deciding the exact end of the match. When play commenced he wasn't blitzing, he was playing out calculated moves he had already defined in his head. I definitely don't know all the rules of a chess tournament, but Adly made sure everyone treated Nikolay like a child and it sure felt like a cheap win to me.

[ziko]

So many cameras around, surprised FIDE doesn't have VAR support. I mean, there's been so many incidents related to stupid cases that it just boggles me why arbiters don't review videos on sight if anyone has it recorded.

Norwegian reporter is just gold. The way he smuggles himself in there in the middle of the game to interview the players is just too much. lul

But really, the kid is not responsible for anyone's actions but his own. In a room of 200 people there was a scream and the Egypt guy lost concentration on time and started pointing fingers? If the guy was awarded 2 seconds, the kid should've also had 2 seconds awarded on the clock.

[aikawa_]

this GM lost all my respect, for calculating moves when the kid couldn't

[TheRMMFilms]

the boy might have distracted him but Ahmed took the opportunity to study the position during the break and use that info to get a draw and thats equally wrong. he should not have been studying the board while the arbiters deliberated.

[Superman-kvwb]

The boy try to be oversmart, he is 2200 and he act like he didn't recognised the last move !!! Are u joking

[batmanthegreatencoder]

Let's say there was shouting, but he shouldn't be allowed on the chessboard untill the case is resolved! That was literally giving him so much time to analyze the board.

[telegraphave]

Translation of what the kids were discussing at 11:05:
Kid in black shirt (Uskov): I didn't say anything at all
Uskov: Wait, why is this a draw, Kolya?
Averin: *unintelligible*
Uskov: So what then, *unintelligible*
Uskov: What a nonsense
Averin: I don't understand too. I don't understand why they (arbiters) made that decision
Uskov: We didn't say anything. We didn't say a single word
Other kid in blue vest (don't recognize him): Bro, he's an adult, they believe him more. We're just kids to them
Averin: You all were standing far and were silent
Other kid: Artem only did this (raises his head) and so what, you didn't even look at him. What a nonsense

[Ramtinss]

On the live stream I saw another GM arguing with this kid in this tournament, I don't know what the context of that was, but the GM was pretty mad at the kid.

[McLarenMercedes]

The other kid said to his friend in Russian: "We even didn't say a word. They believed him because he's an adult"