rules clarifications

1. If I am playing chess in real life (non-competitive) and I lift a piece to move for example it is at e5 and the piece touches e6 (hand is still holding onto piece), do I have to move to e6?

Thanks, but this is actually the same website I found this afternoon, and it doesn't address the issue of accidental touching.

CM ilmago: Thanks for the info.

In case 3., you can call the arbiter, and he may not only restore the position before that move (including touch move for the opponent if the piece can be moved somewhere legally), but also the times on the clock if necessary.

For this, see 6.13 in the rules given in the link above.

If the arbiter deems it appropriate, he has also options such as given in 13.4, for example, he may give you 2 extra minutes of time to compensate for the disturbance.

For 2., I would say that if the piece lands on a possible destination square and stands there, this would look as a regular move to me (I know no rule that forbids a player to make a move by throwing the piece to its new square ;-) ), and because the player has let go of the piece, this move would be final according to touch move.

However, I have never experienced that in such a case, the "thrown" piece really remains standing on its final square. If the piece just lies somewhere on the board, this would be no move in my eyes, but it would fall under "knocking a piece over", so the square a piece falls upon without standing there would not be the obligatory destination square for that move, of course. (Of course, as in all cases of pieces knocked over, the "offender" has to put the pieces back on the right squares using his own time.)