| Harold Buck 2006-02-26, 7:37 pm |
| In article <Mp2Jf.10754$g9.9075@trndny07>,
"Chess One" <innes8@verizon.net> wrote:
quote:
>
> But the point of any rule is to describe behavior which would provide unfair
> advantage by such 'cheating', otherwise there is merely the tautological,
> circular, argument, that because the rule says so, so it is.
Then you might as well ask, "Why don't you let people take as many pages
of notes as they want to when playing chess?" Of course, one answer, as
you point out, is that the rules say it's illegal. But I think the
underlying reason is that people think chess is a mental game and you're
supposed to do it in your head.
Personally, I was taught to write down the move you decided on, then
take one last look to make sure it's not a blunder. I never thought of
this as "note taking," but it was helpful. But if TPTB decided that it's
note taking, they had a reason to do so. Sure, lobby to get the rules
changed if you want to--I do this all the time in lacrosse, with mixed
results--but you have to play with the rules of the game as they are.
--Harold Buck
"Hubris always wins in the end. The Greeks taught us that."
-Homer J. Simpson
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