Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:37:20 10/03/04
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On October 03, 2004 at 14:45:01, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On October 03, 2004 at 00:52:13, Uri Blass wrote: > >>In chess there is a rule that if you touch a piece you must move with it. >> >>When people play in chess servers that rule does not exist. >>I think that it is easy to change it by having a rule that in order to make a >>move you need first to click only at some piece that you like to move and press >>enter and after it to click at another square and click enter. >> >>Are there chess servers that use that idea? >> >>Uri > >I can't see why that would be interesting. >The intention with this rule, I think, is to prevent people from disturbing its >opponent by thouching and almost moving pieces. That isn't an issue with chess >servers. >/Peter The point is that people may want to use chess server games to train to real games so they may want similiar conditions to real games. I remember a tournament game when I almost touched a piece when touching it was a losing mistake but in the last second when my hand was at distance of few milimeters from the piece I took my hand back and did not touch it because I understood that it is a losing mistake. I do not think that touching the piece but not moving it could disturb my opponent more. The opposite. The rule touch move can lead to unsportivic behaviour and using time trouble of the opponent to play moves like Ra1-d1 but moving the piece first to e1 so the opponent may touch the wrong piece in reply to Ra1-e1 so he has to move with it. If the target is not to disturb players then it is better not to have the rule touch-move. The rule is simply one rule of chess and was not decided in order to help the players to play better. Another rule is that a player cannot analyze the game during the game in another board or make notes about the lines that he analyzed in a paper. I believe that players can play better without these rules but the rules are not supposed to help players to play better. The rule touch-move is not very important for the level of most players in tournament time control but can be more important for the level of players at blitz or bullet and blitz is usually the time control that is used in chess servers Uri
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