What I find most distressing is this recent tendency to find ways of defaulting players. Rather than having games decided by moves played on the board.
Could this by chance be the same Reuben Stewpot, who still boasts of how he once defaulted a player, in the Lloyds Bank Masters, for opening 1.e4 e6 2.d4 Ke7 as Black? The Little I Am decided that the black player was taking the urine out of a weaker opponent, and defaulted him, on the alleged grounds that he was "bringing the game into disrepute". Quite what basis our favourite master of the perpendicular pronoun had for such peremptory action is anybody's guess; urine extraction or not, the black player has simply played two legal moves on the chessboard - which is two more than Stewpot himself once played against Tony Miles, in the final round of the Luton Open, incidentally...
"Of course, if I had been consulted initially, I would have told the players to do as I say, not as I do".
