20 Jul '08 17:24>
Hello,
I did a lot of research on this subject with very little results. There are official rules for chess like the one from FIDE: http://www.fide.com/info/handbook?id=124&view=article
But many of them make no sense in the context of correspondence chess. So I found some revisions for correspondence chess, including:
- It IS allowed to use any kind of literature during the game, for example a book about openings or endgames, Wikipedia and so on.
- Chess AIs are disallowed in SOME communities, including this one.
But I found extremely controversial information about these open questions:
- Is it legal to use game explorers like this one: http://www.redhotpawn.com/gamesexplorer/index.php
- Is it legal to "try" moves on a real board, the redhotpawn analysis screen (why else would it work during a game?) or similar? In FICS it is clearly disallowed, but that's not correspondence chess. "Hovering" a piece before dropping it to the destination square but then deciding not to commit the move is a grey area in all online chess rules I found.
Also, shouldn't the rules (or at least the delta to FIDE) be a huge main menu link? All I found was the statement about not using chess AIs.
Kai
I did a lot of research on this subject with very little results. There are official rules for chess like the one from FIDE: http://www.fide.com/info/handbook?id=124&view=article
But many of them make no sense in the context of correspondence chess. So I found some revisions for correspondence chess, including:
- It IS allowed to use any kind of literature during the game, for example a book about openings or endgames, Wikipedia and so on.
- Chess AIs are disallowed in SOME communities, including this one.
But I found extremely controversial information about these open questions:
- Is it legal to use game explorers like this one: http://www.redhotpawn.com/gamesexplorer/index.php
- Is it legal to "try" moves on a real board, the redhotpawn analysis screen (why else would it work during a game?) or similar? In FICS it is clearly disallowed, but that's not correspondence chess. "Hovering" a piece before dropping it to the destination square but then deciding not to commit the move is a grey area in all online chess rules I found.
Also, shouldn't the rules (or at least the delta to FIDE) be a huge main menu link? All I found was the statement about not using chess AIs.
Kai