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What do they do? What is the job description of "refereeing" a chess game?

What does FIDE stand for anyway?

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Man, is that one hell of a leading question - I doubt IM gives a ff.

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Originally posted by Coconut
What do they do? What is the job description of "refereeing" a chess game?

What does FIDE stand for anyway?
FIDE is french acronym for federation internationale des esches (spelling may be inaccurate)
"internatiol federation of chess"

Ok, I saw in a mag, there was one game, karpov/kasparov at linares. Kasparov crushes karpov with a KID. Promotes a pawn and says "queen" which in russian means Knight which karpov gladly hands him. Who do you think resolves the dispute?
funny, eh?

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Originally posted by Coconut
What do they do? What is the job description of "refereeing" a chess game?

What does FIDE stand for anyway?
Will you please stop pretending to be so DUMB!

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Originally posted by Bowmann
Will you please stop pretending to be so DUMB!
I'm serious. Old men play chess in the park all day without a ref standing by. I'm seriously wondering what they do.

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When I was young , I had a friend whom I played with a lot. Every time I played the most common trick on him (a king+queen fork) with a knight , he says he didn't let go of the piece in his last move . That me friend , I believe is cheating , and a ref's job is to make sure neither of the players do that .

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Originally posted by SicilianNajdorf
When I was young , I had a friend whom I played with a lot. Every time I played the most common trick on him (a king+queen fork) with a knight , he says he didn't let go of the piece in his last move . That me friend , I believe is cheating , and a ref's job is to make sure neither of the players do that .
well I could do that, so why is it so great that our #1 was supposedly a ref?

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Originally posted by Coconut
well I could do that, so why is it so great that our #1 was supposedly a ref?
Well you see, he's an adjudicator who has been accused of cheating. So, if true, you could hardly trust him as an adjudicator after that could you.

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Originally posted by Bowmann
Will you please stop pretending to be so DUMB!
You should substitute dumb with ignorant. look at his rating, he
is 12-1300, doesn't have to know about FIDE. Give him a break
and don't automatically think he's dumb because he doesn't know
about FIDE. He may not even know about the USCF, doesn't make
him dumb.

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I don't know if anyone knows this, but a 1300 player is suppose to be a strong social player, and I have this funny feeling that these correspondence ratings on red hot pawn do not correlate with real OTB USCF tournament ratings in standard time. For me, I move rather quickly on redhotpawn, and right now I have this provisional 1400s rating. I wonder I could blow this rating up to 1600s if I thought ten minutes each move I make. LOL As for the dude not knowing about USCF or FIDE, who cares. I doubt he's ever going to meet GM VLAD Kramnik for the World title any time soon.

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Originally posted by Regicidal
FIDE is french acronym for federation internationale des esches (spelling may be inaccurate)
Fédération Internationale des Échecs

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Originally posted by Regicidal
[bOk, I saw in a mag, there was one game, karpov/kasparov at linares. Kasparov crushes karpov with a KID. Promotes a pawn and says "queen" which in russian means Knight which karpov gladly hands him. Who do you think resolves the dispute?
funny, eh?[/b]
English queen doesn't sound a lot like Russian kon' (which means "horse", i.e., "(chess) knight" ). I guess if someone misheard it, then someone would have to ajudicate, but it shouldn't be too difficult.

Paul

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Originally posted by sonhouse
You should substitute dumb with ignorant. look at his rating, he
is 12-1300, doesn't have to know about FIDE. Give him a break
and don't automatically think he's dumb because he doesn't know
about FIDE. He may not even know about the USCF, doesn't make
him dumb.
You're both dumb. And will be simply amazed by this:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=chess+fide&btnG=Search&meta=

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Originally posted by Coconut
What do they do? What is the job description of "refereeing" a chess game?

What does FIDE stand for anyway?
It is an organization started by black folk to assure equality in racial issues dealing with international chess tournaments overseas.

It stands for "First International Dat's in Europe". 🙂