Originally posted by Rookpawn59 Most Irritating player I have ever played was cleaning his feet while playing. And yes he was handling the pieces also.
I'm guessing this was over the board?
Didn't the arbiters have anything to say about that? By handling the pieces do you mean touching them in order to make moves after playing with his feet or do you mean that he'd put his hand on one then another and so forth?
You've got my sympathy anyway, that's not something one should have to put up with.
Originally posted by Rookpawn59 Most Irritating player I have ever played was cleaning his feet while playing. And yes he was handling the pieces also.
Makes you wonder what he does when playing online!
If it was an Over-The-Board game, you could have worn fist aid gloves hopefully. I hope that is not against the USCF rules.
However, does the USCF require using the same hand for pressing the clock as for moving pieces during an OTB game? If so, then let him or her use his or her own board, pieces, and clock.
Originally posted by KingOnPoint If it was an Over-The-Board game, you could have worn fist aid gloves hopefully. I hope that is not against the USCF rules.
Originally posted by KingOnPoint If it was an Over-The-Board game, you could have worn fist aid gloves hopefully. I hope that is not against the USCF rules.
However, does the USCF require using the same hand for pressing the clock as for moving pieces during an OTB game? If so, then let him or her use his or her own board, pieces, and clock.
The rule about using the same hand to make the move and press the clock is in the FIDE rules of chess - so it's automatically part of USCF rules.
Originally posted by Rookpawn59 Most Irritating player I have ever played was cleaning his feet while playing. And yes he was handling the pieces also.
Originally posted by KingOnPoint If it was an Over-The-Board game, you could have worn fist aid gloves hopefully. I hope that is not against the USCF rules.
However, does the USCF require using the same hand for pressing the clock as for moving pieces during an OTB game? If so, then let him or her use his or her own board, pieces, and clock.
One time Cubs manager Dusty Baker was talking about players with unusual habits, and he mentioned that outfielder Moise Alou urinated on his hands to make the skin tougher for when he swung a bat.
Baker added "..and I think that's why other players just give him the 'fist' (instead of a 'high five' ) ".
Originally posted by DeepThought The rule about using the same hand to make the move and press the clock is in the FIDE rules of chess - so it's automatically part of USCF rules.
Otherwise we could use hand and foot, and people would confuse us with kung fu. King fu?
Originally posted by Rookpawn59 Most Irritating player I have ever played was cleaning his feet while playing. And yes he was handling the pieces also.
Was he cleaning his feet, or did he have his opening moves craftily written on his toes?
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