Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid
by distortedsignal on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:45PM
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Is that... true? Are there tournament rules that say that? I'm not much of an OTB player, but this strikes me as somewhat against the spirit of the game. I will freely admit that I don't play blitz unless it's on a computer (I hate chess clocks) and computers don't allow illegal moves, but I would be very surprised if tournaments operated like this. Even small, local tournaments.
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Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid
by crdrost on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:58PM
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Longer games go by FIDE's "Laws of Chess" which has a section 7 called "Irregularities" that indeed specifies the behavior if you accidentally knock over pieces or the game board falls over or you make an illegal move (moving away a piece that was keeping you from check etc).
Resolving irregularities does require your opponent to notice the irregularity and bring it to the attention of the referee.
Not sure about Blitz.
Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid
by kanzenryu2 on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:53PM
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I remember reading about a serious tournament game where somebody castled twice. Nobody noticed during the game. I wonder how many computer databases allow that game to be entered.
Re:Analog Chess – pieces are not constrained to a grid
by Someone on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:01PM
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That must have been Heidenfeld - Kerins, Dublin 1973.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2024861.
White castled short on move 10 and long on move 33. That didn’t help, though. White lost the game.
Also, it seems that site’s software doesn’t allow entering the full game.