I jest, but as a watercolor painter, do you consider tone important?
More of a colourist in the footsteps of Signac


Never been an issue at MCC.
He gives trouble everywhere else. Perhaps he could be made to stay at his homeground.

Agreed. There are a couple of other considerations.
1) The tournament is a round robin
2) Flude was an extremely late entrant
3) Player numbers for the event were poor.
4) A player withdrawal would almost have wrecked the tournament

In the standing of the tournament, yes of course. From a chessplaying perspective, no he wasn't.

cheers,