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Subject: Re: SHREDDER vs JUNIOR how many play rounds?

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 07:53:30 07/11/02

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On July 11, 2002 at 10:49:38, Sylvain Renard wrote:

>>The rules have been defined at a meeting between Shredder, Junior, Brutus, who
>>also could have come in first, and Prof. Jaap de Heringk. The third game would
>>be with less time for Black but Black only needed a draw. White must win.
>>
>>Rolf Tueschen
>
>   I am not criticizing the rules but the way they come and go...!
>Do you know another chess event (or any sport event)
> where rules are decided this way and can change so easily?

Yes, in my chess club we had a blitz chess tournament at carnival where the
tournament director was allowed to change the rules of chess *during* the games:
"now knights move like queens, and queens like knights", "tourn the board
around" etc.

Greetings,
Steffen.



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