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Recent touch-move occurrence in top-level chess

Posted By: neilkaz
Date: Tuesday, 6 September 2011, at 3:02 a.m.

In Response To: Recent touch-move occurrence in top-level chess (Timothy Chow)

Chess like BG should be a gentlemans' game. None of us propronents of touch move in BG want to enforce something like this when an accident occurs.

This is the critical position. David Navara reached for the bishop but bumped the king with his hand. His opponent pointed this out, and that according to the touch-move rule he was bound to move the king. However, doing so would have allowed Rxe7, winning a piece. "I realised that my opponent had made a mistake and accidentally touched the piece, as it is not possible that a player of his strength could have blundered so badly. This is the reason I did not insist on his move with the king."

Messages In This Thread

• Recent touch-move occurrence in top-level chess
  Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 6 September 2011, at 2:51 a.m.
  • Recent touch-move occurrence in top-level chess
    neilkaz -- Tuesday, 6 September 2011, at 3:02 a.m.
    • Recent touch-move occurrence in top-level chess
      Turz -- Tuesday, 6 September 2011, at 10:05 a.m.
    • Recent touch-move occurrence in top-level chess
      Steve Mellen -- Tuesday, 6 September 2011, at 1:50 p.m.
    • to make the short story long ... +1
      svilo -- Tuesday, 6 September 2011, at 2:26 p.m.
  • Recent touch-move occurrence in top-level chess
    garyo -- Tuesday, 6 September 2011, at 12:06 p.m.