In a live game? FRAK NO!
NO NOTES!
NO TABBED UP OPENING DATABASE!
NO TABBED UP ENGINE!
Unless its a Correspondence game ... None of the above is allowed.
Don't be that person... Play honestly and sincerely ..... Way to many ???? players on line out as it is....
Erm, its a chess game. You win you learn, you lose you learn. Its not an examination 😅
You're talking about notes like these?
- Control the center.
- Get your pieces out.
- Look for threats, checks, and captures.
- Rooks belong behind passed pawns (except when they don't).
- Activate your king in the endgame.
I honestly can't see any harm in that. But better, internalize all this.
Think of it this way, can you bring your notes to an OTB tournament?
You're talking about notes like these?
- Control the center.
- Get your pieces out.
- Look for threats, checks, and captures.
- Rooks belong behind passed pawns (except when they don't).
- Activate your king in the endgame.
I honestly can't see any harm in that. But better, internalize all this.
You may not see any harm in that, but it's against the rules of chess. Even the FIDE Rulebook explicitly forbids it.
12.3 During play the players are forbidden to make use of any notes, sources of
information or advice, or analyse on another chessboard.
You're talking about notes like these?
- Control the center.
- Get your pieces out.
- Look for threats, checks, and captures.
- Rooks belong behind passed pawns (except when they don't).
- Activate your king in the endgame.
I honestly can't see any harm in that. But better, internalize all this.
You may not see any harm in that, but it's against the rules of chess. Even the FIDE Rulebook explicitly forbids it.
12.3 During play the players are forbidden to make use of any notes, sources of
information or advice, or analyse on another chessboard.
Right. But there’s a difference between a formal in-person tournament (where you also can’t play in your pajamas or slurp soup at the chessboard) and a newbie trying to figure out the game by playing online. I guess some people get really moralistic about this, which I suppose the OP will want to take into account. On this rather marginal point, I find it hard to work up even a touch of outrage.
(...) I find it hard to work up even a touch of outrage.
It's not about outrage.
The question was "is it allowed?", and the correct answer is "no".
(...) I find it hard to work up even a touch of outrage.
It's not about outrage.
The question was "is it allowed?", and the correct answer is "no".
How are you so sure though? You pointed to FIDE rules, and this ain’t FIDE. Maybe it’s a rule here too — I haven’t bothered to check, and if it is, then I guess you shouldn’t. But it seems rather self-important to get huffy about it.
Here’s the fair play policy. I don’t see it covered. Do you?
Mind you, I’m skeptical that vague notes of this sort this will be enormously helpful to anyone, and I can’t imagine anyone really continuing to look at them beyond a half dozen games, which is part of why I can’t get worked up about it. The point, like I said, is to internalize such advice.
What counts as cheating on Chess.com?
"For Live games on Chess.com, you should not look at anything other than the game in front of you. Focus on your game and rely on your own skills."
Maybe glance at these notes as you review your finished games, while you are asking yourself what else you could have done.
I’m talking about regular games, not those one move a day games (I’ve seen chess.com rules say it’s ok to have entire books at your side to play those games).