Should one wake a sleeping chess player?

By master

Amazing. The international discussion on chess subjects is currently centered around the question of whether it is ethical (and conformant with the rules) to wake a player who has fallen asleep in the middle of his game. This happened to GM Vladislav Tkachiev, who in round three of the Kolkata Open clearly displayed ‘methylated somnolence’, as tournament participant Nigel Short calls it.

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