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>Cardoza published The Official Rules of Chess
>with these sorts of comments:
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>"... the unorthodox rules of the United States Chess
>Federation are ..."
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>"This sort of nonsense is confined, thankfully, to
>American tournaments. ..."
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>"Most American tournaments are [designed to pack as much
>chess as possible into a short period of time]"
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>"Some tournaments, especially in America, have large prizes
>available to low rated players, ... This is basically done to
>justify high entry fees and encourage low rated players to
>participate, but there is a dark side ..."
>
>"In the United States Chess Federation, no distinction is
>made between arbiters and tournament directors, but in
>most of the world, ..."
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>"... the onerous burden of a dues structure, ..."
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>"... Except for the USCF tournaments, this is the rule
>in the rest of the world."
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>"... the authors have a rather low opinion of [USCF]
>specific rules, ..."
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>"... the USCF rules ... are designed primarily for the
>benefit of organizers, not players. ... the idea is to
>minimize the need for arbiters and thus maximize revenues
>for event organizers. These provincial rules are not
>in force anywhere else in the known universe, ..."
>
>"... the absurdity of some of these [USCF] rules ..."
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>"The USCF excuses these strange rules by stating that in
>large tournaments it is impossible (read: too expensive)
>to ..."
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>"... the rest of the world knows ..."
>
>"Since only a small percentage of American chessplayers
>actually play in USCF events, the authors find no need
>to discuss these rules in detail. ... should you find yourself
>playing in such an event you should ask the tournament
>director to explain the differences between the USCF rules
>and the standard (international) rules."
>