The only reason I am asking, is that there was a brouhahaha (haha) about a FIDE rules change concerning the proper way to note a chess move. Specifically, it appears one must move the piece first, then write it down. Granted, I am playing in the US, but I still have to wonder if the following flow of events is correct :
1) Pay fee
2) Get pairing
3) Set up clock
4) Choose a move
5) Write it down
6) Move
7) Touch clock when done
8) Wait for opponent
9) Repeat 4-8 until match is over
10) Repeat 2-4 until tourney is over
Did I miss anything ? Anything else I should take into account ?
you move - press clock . when you write your move is up to you during the game,as long as you have an accurate record. I personally write move after pressing clock in general.
mkirk, I could be wrong, but I think the rules are different in the U.S. and so we should probably just stay out of it!
Fair point. always different across the pond!
rotflmao
You now have to move before writing your move down, they consider writing your move down first a form of taking notes. Stupid i know but what can you do.?
I thought you are allow to write my move and his move in your opponent's time ?
what is 'rotflmao' ? This is a new one on me!
roll on the floor laughing my ass off !!
excellent.
9a) Go to Burger King with friends...play over games you just played and kibitz like crazy with each other
9b) Look at wall chart to: see who the undefeated geniuses are (if any), and if anyone is still posting nothing but goose eggs (castling queenside on the wall chart...or worse); also to find out who you're going up against for the bucks
9c) get some sleep on Saturday night (for two-day tourneys only)
What, they won't let you sleep in McDonalds anymore?
Wow. That is... bizarre. Well, will they at least allow you to write down times of how long it took to move ?
The current USCF rule is that you must move first, then write it down. The ruling was that players were writing down a move, then changing their minds and making another, therefore the move written which was not made was, in effect, a "note" on the game.
To explain, suppose a player wrote down the variations he analyzed before moving. This would clearly be a violation of "making notes." But how can we say it is "making notes" to write down 2 or 3 moves not made, but not "making notes" if he only writes down the first move of a line he doesn't play?
It is hard on those who developed the Petrosian habit of writing their move down first, but as long as it is applied consistently to all players, how can anyone object?
This all reminds me of an odd anecdote. An acquaintance of mine was playing in a local tournament. In the middle of his game, he thought of a move, and wrote it on his scoresheet. His opponent saw what he had written, and evidently decided upon a good response. My aqcuaintance was about to make the move he had written down, but noticing at the last second that it was a bad move, instead made a different move on the board and went to revise his scoresheet. Meanwhile, his opponent had quickly and without thinking played the response to the unplayed move. Since the situation on the board was not what he anticipated, what would have been a good move turned out to be a bad one, losing a piece (the queen, as I recall the story), and soon thereafter, the game.
Of course, Bur_Oak, if your acquaintance had done that today he would have been the one at fault. Is anyone aware of the penalty of writing down before moving?
I seem to recall USCF was "going" to adopt the rule of moving first before taking notes, but many TDs across the country rejected the idea and stated they would not honor the rule, so the rule never got enacted into the official list. Did I recall that correctly or did they go ahead and add the rule in anyway?
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