A year ago in the U.S. Championship Wes So was awarded a
default for writing encouraging notes to himself during a game.
Harmless but against the rules. He was warned twice then when
playing Akobian after 6 moves Akobian told the arbiter So was writing
to himself. "Concentrate", "Watch my time." kind of thing.
(he should have wrote - 'Do no write notes to myself.' )
The Arbiter defaulted Wes.
Time passed and one year later....
S. Wesley - V. Akobian US Chess Championships 2016
A look at the 22....Re8 variation.
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I had no idea it was against the rules to write something on score sheet besides the moves.
I am used to from time to time turn the sheet and write something down on its backside so as to remember for my writing.
(A memo or something.)
When I got published travelogue that included also accounts from Malta Open 2014 on www.e-novine.com, I used some of those notes. Luckily my opponents didn't know that either so they didn't call umpire in.
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Originally posted by KingOnPointThe Caro-Kann is great - I think all my opponents should play it 😉.
GreenPawn,
Do you agree that the Caro-Kann is inferior to the French since Black uses a side pawn to support the d5 pawn rather than a center pawn supporting the d5 pawn?
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 Vs. 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5
I agree with what greenpawn wrote but I'd add that IMO it takes a fair bit of experience to play the Caro well, the French is a good opening for a beginner, the Caro-Kann isn't.
Originally posted by greenpawn34There's 2 sites I look at on the net.
A year ago in the U.S. Championship Wes So was awarded a
default for writing encouraging notes to himself during a game.
Harmless but against the rules. He was warned twice then when
playing Akobian after 6 moves Akobian told the arbiter So was writing
to himself. "Concentrate", "Watch my time." kind of thing.
(he should have wrote - 'Do n ...[text shortened]... e we have....} 25. Qg8+ Nxg8 26. Bg7+ Kf7 27. Bc4+ Bd5 {Only move.} 28. Bxd5 {Checkmate.} [/pgn]
One is "lectures by Varuzhan Akoboian" there's some good stuff on there - at least 70 lectures last time I looked and the other is "the chess network" on you tube.
The refreshing thing about the chess network site is that the guy showing his games sometimes loses!!
