Recklessly going back to the topic of holding pieces I saw a video of Nakamura playing blitz (on cludis blog www.clausjensen.com/)...on capturing they held out both hands - picked up the captured piece with the playing hand and immediately passed it to the other...presumably saving a couple of micro seconds.
I don't have a rule book, so maybe a TD can chime in here. I thought that even if it wasn't your move that you had the right to anaylze the position without being distracted by your opponent. I'd be amazed if the rule book allows a player to walk away from the board with one of the pieces. An why just one piece? Can he walk away with three pieces?
Originally posted by gaychessplayerAs bent out of shape as you're getting over this issue, I'd have thought that by now you'd have run out and purchased a rule book. 😉
I don't have a rule book, so maybe a TD can chime in here. I thought that even if it wasn't your move that you had the right to anaylze the position without being distracted by your opponent. I'd be amazed if the rule book allows a player to walk away from the board with one of the pieces. An why just one piece? Can he walk away with three pieces?
I'm not a TD, but I just skimmed through the USCF rule book again. There's no rule specifically addressing walking away with piece(s) in hand, but the annoying behavior rule and the rules of ethics and good sportsmanship could be invoked by a TD.
We have someone who actually plays whilst listening to his ipod at our club.
That to me is far more annoying.
I may well ask him to turn it down or off when I get around to playing him.
I assume I am quite within my rights to do so, even in an internal club championship game.
The post that was quoted here has been removedYou touch on a good point though, it really annoys me when people face their knights heads sideways (I generally assume they are gong to be trying a subversive style of game after that) or, even worse, if they have one facing forward and one sideways - that really gets to me. If I catch someone setting up a set like that at the beginning of the game then the gloves are off, and I will do what I can to make them pay for the insult.
Originally posted by TyrannosauruschexConfuse your opponent...turn the knights head to the left then jump to the right
You touch on a good point though, it really annoys me when people face their knights heads sideways (I generally assume they are gong to be trying a subversive style of game after that) or, even worse, if they have one facing forward and one sideways - that really gets to me. If I catch someone setting up a set like that at the beginning of the game then the gloves are off, and I will do what I can to make them pay for the insult.
(I've a feeling this was subject of another thread somewhere in the distant past.)
Originally posted by TyrannosauruschexSo in other words you'll try to win? Weren't you going to do that anyway?
You touch on a good point though, it really annoys me when people face their knights heads sideways (I generally assume they are gong to be trying a subversive style of game after that) or, even worse, if they have one facing forward and one sideways - that really gets to me. If I catch someone setting up a set like that at the beginning of the game then the gloves are off, and I will do what I can to make them pay for the insult.
Or do you mean you'll resort to sleazy tricks like walking away with the pieces? (By the way, do you mean for us to believe that you actually do this in real life? Seems more like a talking-crap-on-the-Internet kind of thing.)
In general I am quite respectful to my opponents in real life, but it is still nice to fantasise about a world with no consequences where you can do all these sorts of things.
But, that doesnt mean to say that I dont find it annoying when people set the knights up in that stupid way - they should be facing forward ready to do battle with the enemy forces, not hiding their faces like cowards. I am still yet to see anybody put the knights heads completely facing away from the board.
Originally posted by TyrannosauruschexThere have been entire threads here on how the knights should be oriented. Do we really want to revisit that topic? ....wait, don't answer that question. 😛
In general I am quite respectful to my opponents in real life, but it is still nice to fantasise about a world with no consequences where you can do all these sorts of things.
But, that doesnt mean to say that I dont find it annoying when people set the knights up in that stupid way - they should be facing forward ready to do battle with the ene ...[text shortened]... ards. I am still yet to see anybody put the knights heads completely facing away from the board.
Originally posted by AThousandYoungI think so, I have one, but contrary to Tyrannosaurus claim, a Bachelors is not a university degree.. at least not here... university graduates have a MA or ME...
What is BSC? Bachelor's degree?
honestly in daily life it has about the same weight as a chess rating unless you couple it with some real intelligence, don't boast it.
I've played blitz games online where my opponent kpt offering me a draw making me lose time because I had to click the message away before my move. Droppoing the pieces on the floor is funnier. And you can do the same thing to them.
Originally posted by TyrannosauruschexWhen GM Jude Acers came to Flint to give a simul I had him in a lost position. So what he did was take my knight off and throw it across the room! (yeah, true story).
I have a new funny story about chess, this guy at a club I play at found a new idea to save time on his moves in a blitz game. Whenever he captured a piece he would drop it on the floor to save having to pile them all up neatly at the edge of the board, this also had the additional bonus when his opponent needed to queen a pawn he had to go reaching around on the floor to get it.
But I was so deep in concentration that he was half way around the room before I discovered my knight was not sitting on the table. When he came back to the board I said, "What did you do with my knight!?"
And he screamed at me, "YOU LOST YOUR KNIGHT!"
Then he started pounding his fist on the table and yelled "MOVE!!!
Yeah, he is a real jerk. Needless to say he won the game.