| Harold Buck 2006-02-26, 7:37 pm |
| In article <ngFJf.372$KZ1.226@trndny09>,
"Chess One" <innes8@verizon.net> wrote:
quote:
>
> 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.
What I mean is, you might as well make the rules so they allow all the
notes you want. Then it wouldn't be cheating. But we don't do that,
because we've decided to draw the line somewhere.
quote:
>
> 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.
What I mean is, if you sign up for a tournament with certain rules, you
need to follow those rules. If you find this rule so repugnant, you are
certainly free to go play chess elsewhere. For most people, I don't
think the "don't write the move first" rule is a deal-breaker.
--Harold Buck
"Hubris always wins in the end. The Greeks taught us that."
-Homer J. Simpson
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