Rainy morning. View of window in the bus.
Bus arrives early despite the rain and the players have 30 minutes to burn. The Vietnamese chit chat outside the hall on confortable sofas.
The Chinese prefer to be in their seats getting ready.
Philippino newspapers have daily updates. So different from media coverage in Malaysia 
Newspaper clippings on the notice board outside the playing hall.
2 days old news.
The game to lok at. GM Torre vs GM Li Chao on board 1.
Nokia Gambit strikes again!
A song started to play in the tournament hall and it was obvious someone forgot to turn off his/her handphone.
Grim Reaper buy It kept ringing for an awkward 10 seconds and all the eyes of the players were zeroing on the source. It was from Emanuel Senador and he could not pretend it was not his phone anymore and turned it off. His opponent immediately extended his hand to accept Senador’s resignation.
The arbiters collected the score sheet. As simple as that. No questions asked.
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Malaysian : 11 September 2008 at 2:24 pm
I believe Nigel short suffered the same fate yesterday and loss to an IM.
Malaysian : 12 September 2008 at 12:30 pm
European Union Championships, Liverpool. Round 3.
Round 2 Nigel Short lost when his mobile phone went off. It is a new one and he was sure he’d switched it off. It was a low battery signal rather than a phone call too (in fact this is the only situation it would have made a noise). He accepted the loss without complaint.