In the World Blitz Championships, the regulations stipulate that
the winner will be selected in overtime after the first won game.
The creator of the regulations did not foresee that the players
could draw, and as the tournament ended on December 31, they
might not finish until the end of the year. Ultimately, two
players became world champions, which is quite funny, but it
does not bring glory to the author(s).
Chessable Masters Champions Chess was played on February 16-21. The tournament was played at 10+0 pace. For people who have no idea about chess, it was clear that tempo without added time could cause many absurdities. I didn't watch the entire tournament, but at least in some games we weren't dealing with chess but with "clock punching." This is, of course, a metaphor, because on the Internet, time is counted automatically.
Yet every senior player or referee remembers how many problems the "timed game" created in the times when there were no electronic clocks. How many times have the rules been changed, e.g. by introducing a complaint about playing on time for a player with less than two minutes? How many problems such complaints caused to judges who are amateurs in chess, because there is not enough money in this discipline to hire professional judges.
But every now and then a young "genius" comes along who has little knowledge of chess and its history and repeats mistakes that have long since become history.
For me, the term "secondary illiteracy" best describes this type of behavior, but maybe someone will find a better term.
Finally, a "game" from this tournament.
