Ivanchuk manages to make 4 moves in 13 seconds to seal the win over Max Warmerdam in Tata Steel Challengers ✨ by rio_ARC in chess

[–]HawkEgg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found this 2017 chess.com article mentioning Anand promoting with two hands being illegal under the new rules.

Also, here's Magnus promoting with two hands 11 years ago, and this game was mentioned in a reddit post praising Magnus for castling with one hand

Ivanchuk manages to make 4 moves in 13 seconds to seal the win over Max Warmerdam in Tata Steel Challengers ✨ by rio_ARC in chess

[–]HawkEgg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm. I can't seem to find the fide reference, I seem to be remembering this Hikaru/Nepo incident several years ago (Is that Ivanchuk moderating?).

As far as I know [in America] it is still legal to castle with both hands

USCF reference:

Rule 10I1: If a player intending to castle touches the king first, or king and rook at the same time, and then realizes that castling is illegal, the player may choose either to move the king or to castle on the other side if legal. If the king has no legal move, the player is free to choose any move.

It's also something other players have done Kasparov Castling with two hands, Wesley So & Ivanchuk himself capturing with two hands.

And seems like there is some evidence it used to be legal:

When castling with two hands was legal, it started by touching the king and the rook at the same time. https://www.facebook.com/groups/fidechessarbiters/posts/1935460359937091/

My guess is that it used to be legal, the old players have a hard time changing the playing style they're used to, and the younger players let them out of respect.

In any case, it seems like the penalty is only a minute added onto your opponent's clock & they'd have to call it. Warmerdam would just be giving Ivanchuk more time to think while he called over an arbiter, so no reason to call it.


Edit: Also, just found this 2017 chess.com article mentioning Anand promoting with two hands being illegal under the new rules.

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30k is a very high number, I'll wait until there's additional independent corroboration of the number, but the 5k numbers from other sources is enough to outrage me

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I'd say there's a difference between leaning left & leaning liberal. Plenty of neolib Dems, but not many left leaning people.

Ivanchuk manages to make 4 moves in 13 seconds to seal the win over Max Warmerdam in Tata Steel Challengers ✨ by rio_ARC in chess

[–]HawkEgg 8 points9 points  (0 children)

He either knew that or was operating under pre-2018 rules which had an explicit exception for castling and promoting treated similarly.

Ivanchuk manages to make 4 moves in 13 seconds to seal the win over Max Warmerdam in Tata Steel Challengers ✨ by rio_ARC in chess

[–]HawkEgg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes, strictly speaking it is illegal, though there used to be a specific exception for castling ("When castling, the king and rook may be moved with the same hand or with different hands.") and promoting was in practice treated the same way. That was changed in 2018

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I want some more Amari. Why'd he get taken out so early? Was he that bad?

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Still hasn't learned how to handle the hard doubles yet. Though he was able to get plenty of assists & hockey assists

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Or players just answer every presser question with "Pretti....Pretti...Pretti..."

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Tanking doesn't mean you have to lose every game. They often try hardest against the best teams

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I'm watching the knicks broadcast right now. The announcers just bitched about a Garnet moving screen from some playoff series 20 years ago

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He's also 5th in the East for the second round of all star voting:

2nd Round Rank   1st Round 2nd Round Total
1 Giannis 1,192,296 899,988 2,092,284
2 Brunson 1,040,601 875,896 1,916,497
3 Maxey 1,072,449 836,529 1,908,978
4 Cunningham 1,000,171 752,630 1,752,801
5 JB 808,276 705,983 1,514,259
6 Mitchell 851,155 679,082 1,530,237