Monochrome XIII
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Feature of Blitzin 2 bug against FIDE rules. - 2006/12/23 12:07
Whilst I'm not claiming playing on ICC and OTB are the same, one might reasonably assume that the aim is to make them as similar as reasonably practical. In other words, where reasonably practical, the two should follow the same rules. I hope that statement is not too contensious.
With Blitzin2, the main software distributed on ICC, one can move a piece to a square to you contemplate doing so by holding the mouse key down, leave it there a minute or two to evualte the position, then if you don't like it, move it back. You can do this for as many moves as you like. Doing so gives you the advantage of seeing the board as your opponent would see it, and so gives you a slight advantage.
It would seem to me more realistic if the software was changed to not allow this - i.e once a piece is 'touched' (with the mouse) you must make a move with it, if a legal move exists.
Of course there are other interfaces, but ICC could encourage developers to adopt a similar principle. Of course, with open-source software, there is nothing to stop someone hacking the source and taking that out. But then with open source software there is nothing stopping someone linking the software directly to a chess engine, so if someone is going to cheat, there is not a lot one can do about it.
But allowing one to place a piece in a position you contemplate, would seem to me against the spirit of the rules, and so should not be allowed. It would be easy for ICC to fix with their own software.
I would hate however to see ICC insist on the use of their own software.
At the level I play at (around 1375 on ICC), I don't think many people cheat with chess engines - or if they do, they do a pretty bad job of it !! The bad sportsmanship I detest are those that want to abort when they are loosing. One player (jechess) is rated some 500 points higher than me, but when I got ahead a pawn or two in a rated game, he wanted to abort, then adjourn, but I refused. He got rather abusive when I wanted the continue the game. He finally turned the game around, got the better of me, and was clearly going to win. Just for the hell of it, I requested an abort, but he did not want to any more - strange that, as he needed to abort before !! He is not the only one to do this. Hence my finger notes make it clear my views of takebacks, adjournments and the like.
David Kirkby (g8wrb on ICC).
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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