11 Aug 10
Originally posted by Paul LeggettPaul, what you've heard or haven't heard in your still tender/impressionable years is totally inconsequential. Chess courtesy was alive and well before we were even born and it will still be here after we're gone. All we do is apprehend it or not. Period. You may enjoy meeting one of my remarkable mentors, Russian born E.M. Reubens, who taught me proper Staunton Design knight board positioning on my own beige and green vinyl board on night one during the decade of my twenties...
I have never heard that in any form until now. It strikes me as a contrived reason, to be perfectly honest, but if it works for you, have at it!
http://boylston-chess-club.blogspot.com/search?q=emil+reubens
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11 Aug 10
Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromficsMy knights start facing the King and Queen always. I like to know where they started from, and since they can touch either color this is often the only way to know without reading through the PGN.
Step 1
Go set up a real (3D) chess board. Don't read Step 2 until you have completed Step 1.
If you don't have a set near you, you may skip to Step 2.
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Step 2
How did you set up the knights?
I am always curious about this, myself.
Do they
A.) both face left
B. ...[text shortened]... th descriptive notation.
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Your thoughts?
Same for my Bishops, though it's easy enough to know by color.
My Rooks are a bit different. The King Rook lines up with the path it follows, while the Queen rook is rotated 45 degrees based on the dips in the bricks on top.
No one I play OTB cares, and it really makes little difference I suppose... but it's what I do. My brother in law once turned my knights to face forward like his and I had to lay into him about... it was pretty funny because I think it now bothers him that I care, and won't let him touch my pieces. There is never a need for my pieces to be adjusted, I always place them dead center.
11 Aug 10
Looking at some G.M. chess games the Knight was placed in any number of positions. Facing forward were Spassky and his opponent, opponent of J. Polgar, and Kamsky. Facing left were Kramnik, Keres, Browne, and J. Polgar ( her QN was facing forward). Facing right were Miles and his opponent's QN. All of these game were in progress.
11 Aug 10
Originally posted by gambit3I really don't think it matters. I'm a patzer, and I never notice how my opponents' knights are oriented during a game. In OTB, with 3-D stereo vision, looking downward at the pieces, I don't think there's any way you can mistake the knight for any other pieces. (Although I've never had anyone pull greenpawn's dirty trick #73. But I don't think it would affect me. I think he was just "a funnin' " us. )
Looking at some G.M. chess games the Knight was placed in any number of positions. Facing forward were Spassky and his opponent, opponent of J. Polgar, and Kamsky. Facing left were Kramnik, Keres, Browne, and J. Polgar ( her QN was facing forward). Facing right were Miles and his opponent's QN. All of these game were in progress.
11 Aug 10
Originally posted by gambit3Chess etiquette rules are chess etiquette rules... irrespective of which players observe
Looking at some G.M. chess games the Knight was placed in any number of positions. Facing forward were Spassky and his opponent, opponent of J. Polgar, and Kamsky. Facing left were Kramnik, Keres, Browne, and J. Polgar ( her QN was facing forward). Facing right were Miles and his opponent's QN. All of these game were in progress.
and respect them and which don't. Chess prowess in no way defines poise or manners.
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11 Aug 10
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyNo, they aren't. You can hardly call your rules common etiquette if you're the only one on a chess website that has heard of them.
Chess etiquette rules are chess etiquette rules... irrespective of which players observe
and respect them and which don't. Chess prowess in no way defines poise or manners.
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11 Aug 10
Originally posted by randolphAnd now there's two, Randolph. Since when have the unwashed philistine masses ever got anything significant right;
No, they aren't. You can hardly call your rules common etiquette if you're the only one on a chess website that has heard of them.
since when have the enlightened few ever depended upon the trivial many to determine correct attitudes and values?
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11 Aug 10
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI always snap the crosses off the Kings because I'm an atheist
Footnote: Also proper chess etiquette to position the king with its cross in plain profile
view (same reason as knights relative to bishops) to distinguish it from your queen.
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