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Is wearing headphones during chess games against the rules in FIDE and Chess.com?
According to https://handbook.fide.com/files/handbook/OnlineChessRegulations.pdf
Rule 9.7 states that "Players are not allowed to have headphones in or over their ears during play."
I think ...
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