| Chess One 2006-02-26, 7:37 pm |
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"Harold Buck" <no_one_knows@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:no_one_knows-323E0F.22195417022006@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
quote:
> In article <Mp2Jf.10754$g9.9075@trndny07>,
> "Chess One" <innes8@verizon.net> wrote:
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> 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?"
No Harold, that would be a /demonstrably/ obvious way of cheating. I might
not as well say that, and challenge the comparison absolutely, since no real
medical commission has poved anything. Nothing. De Nada.
quote:
> 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.
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> 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 - everyfone has reasons, but do they make sense, and do they obscure
more reasonable rules?
quote:
> 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.
No you don't. And increasingly people don't agree and vote with their feet.
There are scarcely more active adult players in chess than there were before
the Fischer boom - about 11,000 in the US. These days most active chess
people play on-line /only/.
So when chess fails to become attractive and grow, perhaps we should admit
there are problems with it? And if Fide propose drug testing, then the
answer is JUST SAY NO.
Phil Innes
quote:
> --Harold Buck
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> "Hubris always wins in the end. The Greeks taught us that."
>
> -Homer J. Simpson
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