> > Barry Margolin:
> > > The only wrinkle is that the law says it applies when no result can be
> > > obtained "owing to an irregularity".  But nowhere in the Laws does it
> > > say that late play is an irregularity...

> > I raised that point here in a thread earlier this year.  Expert consensus
> > was that it does indeed count as an irregularity, whether the Laws say
> > so explicitly or not.

> An irregularity is "a deviation from correct procedure". It is correct
> procedure to move (if you're a moving pair) when the round is called
> (see Law 8). If you cannot do that because you haven't finished playing
> a board, you have committed an irregularity.