Author: Reynolds Takata
Date: 14:29:14 01/07/99
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Well in my understanding of the rules you should have gotten a draw even if you dropped the queen. I myself ones benefitted from just such a (possible)bad call by a director. I had been losing a game, but came back to get a TOTALLY drawing position Black=K+Q+B vs K+Q+B+P. The bishops were opposite colors, and i controlled the queening sqaure with my bishop, even if he did queen(which he couldn't) K+Q vs K+Q+B is 98% forced draw anyway. I however was low on time i got to 3seconds on my clock and called "NO LOSING CHANCE:)!" The rule then was that they put a minute or half of your time on a 5 sec delay clock whichever is LESS. So they put 2 secs on my clock with 5 sec delay and made me play. I blitzed out 20+moves, i was moving so fast that my opponent wasn't getting a chance to hit his clock, and eventually he forgot about punching it. He sat looking at the board when the clock goes BEEP(i think the clock calling flag should be illegal), anyway he had let his flag fall in sudden death, i said flag and got a WIN, after calling no losing chances! No one including me thought anything of it at the time, but later after the tourney(weeks), most of the directors i talked too thought he should have been awarded a draw, but he never protested. This because claiming no losing chances is really the same as claiming a draw. It may be however that you had to claim i accept the no losing chances as soon as you lost the queen. I have always thought a director had to make a decision on claims based on which came first? If that is the case a person might be able to call no losing chances even if their flag has fallen if the opponent hasn't called flag(this is yet to be tested:)). >My questions are: > >1) Does this seem strange to anyone else, or just me? White had the chance to >accept the draw when black made the claim, but chose not to. Due to the whim of >the TD either to watch the game (the offer is live) or to not watch the game >(the offer is off the table), the results of the game changes. > >2) Does any of the computer chess programs understand these USCF rules, or does >the operator of the program have to understand them and attempt to handle them? > >3) If any of the computer chess programs DO understand the rules, how much >effort is it when the USCF comes out with another set of rules? > >Thanks, > >KarinsDad
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