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If you are running, or plan to run, a FIDE rated event after October 1, you’ll want to read the information in the above link.
Hmm. I guess that’s one way of dispensing with the pesky quorum requirement.
Others’ mileage may vary, but I think I’m going to take a break from sending my events for FIDE rating. I want my events to be friendly to players who might need to be reached for professional or family reasons, and I am confident in my ability to distinguish players being reached for these reasons from players being told that 27.Ref2 leads to #15.
For the small weekend event, this is overkill.
The updated verbiage expands from mobile/communication device to any device which could suggest chess moves. Why 11.3.a doesn’t cover that is anyone’s guess. It would seem easy to advance notice the new wording away on the basic principle that an Arbiter’s Commission request is not binding without confirmation of the General Assembly.
FIDE 11.3a (and FIDE 6.7 for that matter) can be easily rendered useless by advance notice of event rules. For that matter, I haven’t seen any USCF TD consistently enforce USCF 20N as written. Oh well.