FIDE Laws of Chess on the CFC web site

[Pierre Dénommée]

This "late" rule is not absolute. The TD can announce in advance what will be the "norm" (1 hour, 15 min, etc.)

This is totally wrong. The current FIDE Laws is that

a. Any player who arrives at the chessboard after the start of the session shall lose the game. Thus the default time is 0 minutes. The rules of a competition may specify otherwise.

b. If the rules of a competition specify a different default time, the following shall apply. If neither player is present initially, the player who has the white pieces shall lose all the time that elapses until he arrives, unless the rules of the competition specify or the arbiter decides otherwise.

The arbiter has the right to decide otherwise only if the default time is not zero. Furthermore, his discretion is limited to subtracting or not subtracting the time at the beginning of the game. He has lost his discretion not to forfeit a late player unless the rules of the competition grant him this power .

The arbiter has no right to announce anything in advance : the default time must be written in the rules of the competition.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

This is totally wrong. ...

The arbiter has no right to announce anything in advance : the default time must be written in the rules of the competition.

I wrote: "This "late" rule is not absolute. The TD can announce in advance what will be the "norm" (1 hour, 15 min, etc.)"

Do you see a difference in your and my statements? TD is not an arbiter, though in most cases they are the same person. The legitimate way to announce is of course to write down in the tournament announcement. There is still possible way that all players and the TD agree to change this just before a tournament. Thus your "This is totally wrong" is totally wrong.

[Bob Armstrong]

Maurice Smith has looked into this question at Eric's request, and is working with ED Gerry Litchfield to update the Laws on the website - they are looking at the suggestion of a link to the FIDE site.

Bob

[Pierre Dénommée]

I wrote: "This "late" rule is not absolute. The TD can announce in advance what will be the "norm" (1 hour, 15 min, etc.)"

Do you see a difference in your and my statements? TD is not an arbiter, though in most cases they are the same person. The legitimate way to announce is of course to write down in the tournament announcement. There is still possible way that all players and the TD agree to change this just before a tournament. Thus your "This is totally wrong" is totally wrong.

TD may means arbiter ord organiser. In Europe, it almost always means organiser and in the USA, it almost always means arbiter. If you take TD as meaning the organiser, your are totally right.