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Is there a recourse when a player does not resign in a clearly lost position?
If you are using USCF rules, rule 18G says the director may adjudicate a game in an emergency situation. And they can declare an emergency situation if:
a player with substantial time remaining and a ...
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Is there a recourse when a player does not resign in a clearly lost position?
From your question, it seems that the governing laws would be FIDE’s rather than USCF’s.
This being so, who takes the role of arbiter in your events? Under FIDE Laws the arbiter has the discretion to ...
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Is there a recourse when a player does not resign in a clearly lost position?
What recourse, if any, is there? According to the laws of chess, what B did is entirely legal as far as I know. But it is extremely unsportsmanlike.
You are right. The laws give you no recourse in ...
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How do arbiters handle touch move complains where players deny?
How do arbiters handle touch move complains where players deny?
There is a very simple principle arbiters follow: "Claims must be supported by evidence"
So, for instance, if you claim a ...
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Overkilling the opponent
Is it wrong/bad etiquette to overkill the opponent, e.g. by making 5 new queens?
Not only is it not wrong it may be the best course of action in that it may bring home to the opponent how bad their ...
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Overkilling the opponent
IMHO, you should go for the kill in the most efficient way you could. If your opponent shows poor sportmanship, you show him the opposite.
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Is there a recourse when a player does not resign in a clearly lost position?
Player A started playing a chess game that would cause him to miss his last bus home if both players used their time. Even if he himself still had an hour left! That's on him, it's a risk he took ...
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"Premove" in OTB game
What should the arbiter do when a player not having the move touches a piece with the intention of counter blitzing?
Working out somebody else's intentions when they do something is only possible for ...
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Overkilling the opponent
Hold on -- you resent the opponent prolonging the game unnecessarily, so to get back at them you prolong the game unnecessarily? To put it bluntly, that is stupid behaviour. You are cutting off your ...
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Is it ethical to take a draw in a winning position, if a draw is good enough?
1. Is opponent's draw offer unethical?
Offering a draw in positions that are much worse is frequently regarded as bad etiquette.
However, bad etiquette does not always equate to unethical behaviour.
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Why do Ding and Nepo sign the board?
My guess is that these signatures transform the chessboard into an official artifact of chess history, that will have more value for at least some collectors, and can be later displayed in expositions ...
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Overkilling the opponent
Overkill by your definition may be considered poor sportsmanship even though continuing to play in a losing position really is not. Resigning in such cases is a matter of respect, and it may be a ...
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Overkilling the opponent
First, let's look at reasons why your opponent might not resign:
They might want to see how you checkmate them. In that case, going for the most efficient checkmate you can find will do both of you a ...
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Walkover -- what is this?
First a note on the opening which some of the commenters clearly haven't seen before, else they wouldn't make such rude comments. The one time I faced it as white (I played the more circumspect 4. d3) ...
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"Premove" in OTB game
There is a clear difference in the FIDE rules between a move being made and being completed. It's made once you let go of the piece, completed when you have pressed the clock. There are various ...
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Farming: Is it unethical to gain rating by playing against only weaker players?
My answer will be divided into 1) a short discussion of rating manipulation because you explicitly mention farming, farmbitrage, rating manipulation, and your liking of rating gains, 2) whether it is ...
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Arbiter talking to player
Can arbiters interrupt you to do this while it your turn?
Of course!
Article 12 of the FIDE Laws of Chess defines the role of the arbiter. In particular it says this:
12.2 The arbiter shall:
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Le Petit Tourette
Article 12 of the FIDE Laws of Chess defines the role of the arbiter. 12.2 specifies the things that the arbiter shall do and in particular:
12.2.6 take special measures in the interests of ...
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"Premove" in OTB game
If someone plays mostly online, then the instinct to pre-move might become natural and could pop up when playing OTB (Over The Board).
Someone might think that pre-touching a unit has a certain flair. ...
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Overkilling the opponent
There are several different angles to this:
Yes, it is bad manners to not give up a really hopeless position. On the other hand it is even worse manners to point out the bad manners of the opponent, ...
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Farming: Is it unethical to gain rating by playing against only weaker players?
The rating system is designed to be fair. Beating a lower rated player will give you a small rating increase. Drawing with them will give a small rating loss and losing to them a large rating loss. ...
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Why wouldn't Magnus Carlsen just farm rating points by playing weak tournaments to reach 2900 kinda like what Igors Rausis did?
"Farming" was indeed the optimal stratregy to climb the Elo ladder. The reason Carlsen (and most top players) don't use it is simple: gaining rating points is not the ultimate goal of his ...
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