Scarblac wrote on 02/15/17 at 09:46:33:


Experienced arbiters should have heard of this. Allegedly one or two GMs realised that they could exploit the inexperience of arbiters with digital clocks back in the 1990s by playing an illegal move when short of time. 

FIDE Rules, Section 7.5.b: "After the action taken under Article 7.5.a, for the first completed illegal move by a player the arbiter shall give two minutes extra time to his opponent"

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Following scenario:
- You just made your 40th move in a highly complicated position
- Your opponent has 2 seconds left on his clock to make his move

He now plays an illegal move.

You pause the clock, call an arbiter. The arbiter looks at the position, determines that indeed this move is illegal, sets the position & the clock back to what it was previously (removing potential increment, as well as the 40move bonus) and adds 2 minutes to your time.

Those 2 minutes added to your clock are obviously useless, since you just hit move 40. 
Meanwhile, your opponent now had 5minutes -rather than 2 seconds- to look at the position, think up a good move, and play it.

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Is this truly in accordance with the rules? 
Or should an arbiter deduct time from the black player (forcing him to lose)?

I'm not really finding any concrete course of action other than the adding of 2 minutes to the opponent's clock, which in this case (and many others) doesn't accomplish anything - 
but it seems strange to me that making this illegal move would provide black with such a tremendous advantage over playing "fair"/correctly?!