Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 12:49:50 10/05/05
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On October 03, 2005 at 17:31:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 02, 2005 at 12:27:17, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>On October 02, 2005 at 12:07:02, Drexel,Michael wrote: >> >>>On October 02, 2005 at 11:28:13, Terry McCracken wrote: >>> >>>>On October 02, 2005 at 10:46:25, Mike Byrne wrote: >>>> >>>>>On October 02, 2005 at 10:35:48, Amused To Death wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Is there A web site that covers the game where Gary touched the pawn >>>>> >>>>>It was not a pawn , it was a knight. >>>>> >>>>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A38229-2000Jul3¬Found=true >>>>> >>>>>halfway down the story >>>>> >>>>>"In 1994 in Linares, Spain, Kasparov played a knight move against Judit Polgar >>>>>and removed his fingers from that piece. But after he saw that he might lose >>>>>material, he took the knight back and made a different move. His act was caught >>>>>on camera by a Spanish television crew, but Polgar was so shocked that she >>>>>froze, uncapable to protest and soon lost the game. " >>>>> >>>>>do google search on "polgar+kasparov+knight+Linares+touched" >>>>> >>>>>Michael >>>> >>>>The story is different than when I first heard it. What I had read years ago, is >>>>Kasparov touched the square with his Knight, for all of a quarter second then >>>>moved it to the correct square. Polgar could have held him to the touch square >>>>rule, but this is the first time I've heard that Kasparov removed his fingers >>>>from the piece. >>>> >>>>At this point, I'd rather see the footage, then read a report. >>>> >>>>Terry >>> >>>JFYI, there isn´t a "touch square rule" in chess. Touching a square is allowed. >>>Kasparov has released the piece. >>> >>>Michael >> >>Ah...yeah there is Micheal....touch square touch piece, etc. You don't have to >>release the piece. >> >>Go through the all rules concerning this. FIDE USCF CFC etc. I'll be surprised >>to see this rule changed. > > >Michael is right. There is "touch move" where once you touch the piece, it must >be moved if it is legal to move that piece (if it is pinned on the king it is >not a legal move and doesn't have to be moved). But all the rules say is that >once a piece has been touched, you have to move that piece. USCF once had the >rule stating that if you touched one of your opponent's pieces, you had to >capture it, but you could capture it with any piece you choose to use, unless >you have touched one of your own pieces. Then you must move your touched piece >and if you can capture the opponent's piece you touched, using your touched >piece, that must be your move. Otherwise you can move anywhere you want using >your touched piece. > >There is no "touched square" rule. I've seen many a GM "slide" a rook or queen >down a rank/file/diagonal rather than picking it up. There use to be, and you of all people should know that. It's obsolete, as I've discovered, but it did exist, both in Canada and the United States. Terry
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