Fine for late?

This one is totally ugly!

Just imagine the Presidential Board of FIDE submitting a proposal "that players who fail to appear at the start of a game, not only lose the game by default, but also give them a penalty of € 500 (a second time € 1.000 and a third time € 2.000)."

Good enough, this proposal met a lot of opposition.

As if the torturous pain from the zero default time rule weren't painful enough, FIDE's Presidential Board was still able to have the guts to come up with such a demonic proposal.

Thinking that the main motive behind the proposal was to generate revenues (which the zero default time doesn't do) makes it more out of this world. If international players are already burdened by air fares, registration fees, accommodation expenses and so on, what more with this kind of proposal if passed?

I have yet to hear a tournament here in the Philippines implementing the zero default time system. I hope not to hear such a thing in local tournaments.

In the first place - as I view it - the zero default system is already uncalled for. I guess the allowable defaulting time for a tournament game is humane enough.

I first heard of that strict system being used was from a tournament in China, with no less than GM Hou Yifan as the victim.

Isn't China a communist state? FIDE's Presidential Board might be believers of communism.