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goldendog wrote:
But if you are the last guy, it's finally okay to take your meal at the table.
5 byes in a row and another trophy (whoo!!!).
Dec 30, 2012
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#65
Opponent of mine at a recent OTB event got VERY distracted, visibly distracted by some dudes who were admittedly chatting a bit too loudly. So he goes to get the TD, points out the dudes, comes back to the table, and proceeds to move the wrong knight to e7 in an IQP position, and loses a couple of moves later on a rather atypical Bxf7 sac. Of course he wins the postmortem, which rather validates my choice of opening.
So...he played ...d4?
Well jeez ozzie, how did you sac on f7 with the guy's d-pawn in the way? 
Kingpatzer wrote:
I forget the details of the story, but one of the funnier chess anecdotes I was ever told invovled two players "adjusting" each other's knights throughout the game -- as they both had some obsessive compulsive demand that the knights face particular ways, so on each turn they'd readjust the knights on the board to fit their preference only to have it undone immediately after hitting the clock.
Man you have to get it done.
Need to pay the TD whatever you have to pay to get these 2 guys to play each other again and get it on vide. Ching Ching. The funniest chess video ever. If you have ever watched MONK then imagine 2 of them. And have to get some music added to which would make it awesome. Oh add some animation after a replay of it.
skullskullskull wrote:
Kingpatzer wrote:
AndyClifton wrote:
Really? Must've changed it since my day.
You don't have to ask your opponent, but you can't do it on their move.
4.2 Provided that he first expresses his intention (for example by saying „j’adoube“ or “I adjust”), the player having the move may adjust one or more pieces on their squares.
Is that FIDE or USCF or some other chess league?
FIDE:
http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=124&view=article
Though I believe USCF has a similar if not exact rule. That being that a player can only adjust pieces while their clock is running or it is their turn.
yottaflops wrote:
skullskullskull wrote:
Kingpatzer wrote:
AndyClifton wrote:
Really? Must've changed it since my day.
You don't have to ask your opponent, but you can't do it on their move.
4.2 Provided that he first expresses his intention (for example by saying „j’adoube“ or “I adjust”), the player having the move may adjust one or more pieces on their squares.
Is that FIDE or USCF or some other chess league?
FIDE:
http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=124&view=article
Though I believe USCF has a similar if not exact rule. That being that a player can only adjust pieces while their clock is running or it is their turn.
Yeah i heard of it. But what happens you say " I adjust" and adjust a piece and not your turn? I have never been in that situation from either side of the board.
Your opponent has the right to slap you silly.
That why they call me James Bond with a ... under the table.
I have a license to .......
After my victories i like ......... it shaken and not stirred.
I recently had a discussion with a chess club friend that told me a story of a tournament he played in where he was in time trouble but up material/position and his oppenent did an adjustment on my club friend's clock, clearly blocking his view of the position...my club friend's time expired and the TD didn't know what to do and the game was won by the piece adjuster. Also the game was increment or some sort so there was a legitimate way for my club friend to win.
Now I feel the need to go find what the ruling should have been, but I'm guessing at least a couple of minutes should be added to your opponents clock.
Dec 30, 2012
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#75
Don't be
That guy
This guy
Some guy
getting high
you gotta flyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
and not be
That guy
This guy...
[anyone who uses this as a no 1 billboard chart topper I want a cut of 20%]
I think Flo-rida did this already.
yottaflops wrote:
I recently had a discussion with a chess club friend that told me a story of a tournament he played in where he was in time trouble but up material/position and his oppenent did an adjustment on my club friend's clock, clearly blocking his view of the position...my club friend's time expired and the TD didn't know what to do and the game was won by the piece adjuster. Also the game was increment or some sort so there was a legitimate way for my club friend to win.
Now I feel the need to go find what the ruling should have been, but I'm guessing at least a couple of minutes should be added to your opponents clock.
I don't understand. He adjusted the clock to obscure the board? Or adjusted the pieces to hide the final seconds ticking down?
yottaflops wrote:
I recently had a discussion with a chess club friend that told me a story of a tournament he played in where he was in time trouble but up material/position and his oppenent did an adjustment on my club friend's clock, clearly blocking his view of the position...my club friend's time expired and the TD didn't know what to do and the game was won by the piece adjuster. Also the game was increment or some sort so there was a legitimate way for my club friend to win.
Now I feel the need to go find what the ruling should have been, but I'm guessing at least a couple of minutes should be added to your opponents clock.
Well bluff.
I act like i want to whip his as when we get outside. Make a big fuss. Let his name be clearly known at the time. Get your friend in on it like he holding you back.
Result the TD can not just blow it off and allow it to happen in another game. Result game lost. Lose the Battle win the war.
But if this happen in a championship round! Dude better run and not come back ever.
waffllemaster wrote:
yottaflops wrote:
I recently had a discussion with a chess club friend that told me a story of a tournament he played in where he was in time trouble but up material/position and his oppenent did an adjustment on my club friend's clock, clearly blocking his view of the position...my club friend's time expired and the TD didn't know what to do and the game was won by the piece adjuster. Also the game was increment or some sort so there was a legitimate way for my club friend to win.
Now I feel the need to go find what the ruling should have been, but I'm guessing at least a couple of minutes should be added to your opponents clock.
I don't understand. He adjusted the clock to obscure the board? Or adjusted the pieces to hide the final seconds ticking down?
His opponent adjusted a piece thus obscuring the board from my club friend's view. That is, my friend could not see the board fully when his opponent was adjusting the piece, and from what I understand, once the adjusting was done the clock time for my friend had expired.
See i have not been to these type of tournament.
But i see now if i go i better bring something with me?
Option? Hit his clock.
Use your phone to take a pic of time and one of him adjusting and declare a win by cheating. Call your local new station and news paper after they decide the result of the game. Send him in exile.
I don't take kindly to this thread.
~That Guy