Apparently not.
Why are there so many scholars mates in scholistic tournies?
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school bullies do not allow the French defense to be played.
I find it dumb that people make fun of scholastic tournaments. True, most kids are bad at chess, but so are most adults. And the kids improve, while adults largely don't.
I ask this because, a while back I read that some idiot was trying to make scholars mate illegal in scholastic tournies. If you scholars mate somebody, you forfeit the game. I disagree with this stupid idea.
Was it posted on April 1 ?
Yeah, that's a pretty stupid idea. I agree with your disagreement with it.
Dead-Thread-Dredd wrote:
Was it posted on April 1 ?
No.
dpnorman wrote:
Yeah, that's a pretty stupid idea. I agree with your disagreement with it.
Do you actually agree with it?! Why not teach em how to avoid it, instead of just rewarding ignorance?
In the three years I played for my high school team, I did not see one fool's mate.
I did see a bunch of horrible endgames, though.
Fool's mate isn't scholars mate.
Are we going to quibble now over which idiot's mate is which?
Teaching kids how to avoid scholar's mate is also teaching those who are paying attention how to deliver it.
Ziryab wrote:
Teaching kids how to avoid scholar's mate also teaching those who are paying attention how to deliver it.
It can't be delivered, if you know how to avoid it.
Provide the link(s) please CP.
What does "Scholistic" mean?
School dipstick
Conflagration_Planet wrote:
Fool's mate isn't scholars mate.
Than You !
So many people get the two confused and think they mean the same thing.
Aren't they tought how to avoid em? Also, I meant SCHOLASTIC chess.