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iamalegendatchess
Jan 15, 2017
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I was recently playing in a tournaments and I had an argument with my opponent. If my opponent writes down a move and plays a different one, then crosses it out and writes the one he actually played, does he get penalized? Here is what happened: My opponent wrote Ne6, picked up the knight, and moved it to d7. Then she erased Ne6 and instead wrote nd7. Ne6 was a legal move. What is the rule? Is this a loss. I know in FIDE it is. I won anyways, but just curious.
iamalegendatchess wrote:
I was recently playing in a tournaments and I had an argument with my opponent. If my opponent writes down a move and plays a different one, then crosses it out and writes the one he actually played, does he get penalized? Here is what happened: My opponent wrote Ne6, picked up the knight, and moved it to d7. Then she erased Ne6 and instead wrote nd7. Ne6 was a legal move. What is the rule? Is this a loss. I know in FIDE it is. I won anyways, but just curious.
It was a rule violation but I seriously doubt if the TD would have done more than warn the player of the requirement to move first and then record the move.
A lengthy and intelligent discussion of this issue-
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/uscf-rule-15a
Jan 15, 2017
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#3
What about rules 20b and c? Does this not fall under note taking?
Ask Wesley So
Jan 21, 2017
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#5
Writing first and then moving is allowed under the rules for USCF, though the reverse is preferred.
The move made on the board is the move that is counted, so if the move made on the board differs from the one written down, the move on the board is all that matters. If the player was writing a move down, erasing it, then writing another, that could fall under note taking, if done very often, but would garner a warning first, at most.
As far as So's situation, that was a FIDE event, he had been warned, and he was making notes of a different sort. That was slightly different.
