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| Posted by diakonos uskidscompute.com 11/13/2005 18:33:57 Play online chess |  Subject: question re: laws of chessMessage: I have an important question regarding the rules for competition chess. I am running a tournament for juniors and the result of a critical game is in question. Thanks in advance to any who respond. A boy announced checkmate and, examining the board, I found that his opponent's king and queen had been placed incorrectly, with king on his color rather than queen on hers. Having a vague recollection that discovery of such an error during play requires beginning a new game, but discovery after completion of a game requires the result to stand, I informed the boys that I would take a closer look at the FIDE laws before making a final ruling. 7.1a: "If during a game it is found that the initial position of the pieces was incorrect, the game shall be cancelled and a new game played." No mention is made in the FIDE laws concerning discovery of such an error after completion of a game. Does anyone have experience as an arbiter, or been involved in an official arbiter's ruling on such a matter? What was the ruling? I am looking for an official precedent before making my ruling. Again, thanks in advance to any who reply. Larry (diakonos) | ||
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| Posted by apastpawn uskidscompute.com 11/13/2005 19:52:35 Play online chess | Seen this once. Message: The exact same happened and the ruling was: It was indeed a checkmate and the discovery was after the completion of the game. Therefore it stood as a checkmate. ——— Chess as a Slow Dance of Seduction (movie review) — Caroline Bottaro’s tangy comic bonbon, “Queen to Play,” plucks the game of chess out of the metaphorical realm of spy thrillers and reimagines it as a fable about relationships and upward mobility. Adapted from Bertina Henrichs’s novel “The Chess Player,” this slight but captivating movie (Ms. Bottaro’s directorial debut) compares the strategies of chess to the erotic maneuvers in a flirtatious pas de deux that may be more satisfying than actual sex. At the same time, a woman’s winning the game symbolizes female empowerment in a man’s world and ascent from working-class drudgery to the bourgeoisie. Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire), the movie’s sly, middle-aged Cinderella, is ... Posted by diakonos | uskidscompute.com 11/13/2005 21:57:25 Play online chess Message: Larry (diakonos) ——— Chess: Who wants to argue with Bobby Fischer? — Fischer's famous attack on the King's Gambit is interesting – but a long way from a refutation. In 1961 Bobby Fischer wrote "A Bust to the King's Gambit", a now famous article in which he set out, in typically uncompromising language, to do exactly as the title says. His idea was to play 1 e4 e5 2 f4 exf4 3 Nf3 d6, avoiding the Kieseritsky variation (3...g5 4 h4 g4 5 Ne5) which Spassky had used to defeat him a couple of years before. The diagram position arises after 3...d6 4 d4 g5 5 h4 g4 6 Ng1 Bh6 and here Fischer claims that White has "no compensation" for the pawn. RB: Who wants to argue with Bobby Fischer? And you can see his point. With White's pieces all on ... |