Kasparov blitz challenge

[MJMcCready]

There appears to be an answer from Emil Sutovsky on Facebook:

"Well, Hikaru just told me - he just didn't know how to react. And of course, touch-move is touch-move there."

So it wasn't clock move...

So after the piece is released it must stay where it is in blitz? Did Kasparov bend the rules? Just watching the commentary but its seems as though the commentators aren't sure themselves.

Ok, question answered 1.18.11 into coverage, releasing the piece determines the move.

http://livestream.com/ccscsl/ItsBlitz

[Ray Sayers]

An incredibly entertaining event, spoiled only by motormouth engine slave Ashley who speaks like a South American football commentator. My wife was quite happy to have the event on the TV but very quickly got tired, asking 'doesn't that idiot shut up?'

[MJMcCready]

Lol I know what you mean regarding the engines...why does it matter what moves they like? Surely tactical and positional explanations matter more.

[Barry Sandercock]

I agree, especially in Blitz.

[Ray Sayers]

Can you imagine what Kasparov in his prime would have done to these guys? It's a pity he is 53 and out of competitive chess for so long. Frankly, I thought the young guns would murder him but who do you think played the most dynamic, rich chess? All I can say is 'wow!'.

[MJMcCready]

They seem afraid of him.

[LawrenceCooper]

They seem afraid of him.

So off to a flier, crushing Kasparov in 25 moves in the first game of the day.

[J T Melsom]

These are some of the best chess players ever but its kind of disappointing how many of them have stepped outside the rules...

[Carl Hibbard]

They seem afraid of him.

So off to a flier, crushing Kasparov in 25 moves in the first game of the day.

Who? Moves?

[Jonathan Bryant]

These are some of the best chess players ever but its kind of disappointing how many of them have stepped outside the rules...

I was wondering about this today. Our era does seem to have generated more than a few 'take back' incidents amongst the top guys - Nakamura, Carlsen, Kasparov (twice), for example.

Are there more of them at the highest level than there were in previous times or is it simply that we get to know about them now because of video coverage and the internet? On general principles I’d suspect the latter, but I’d be interested if anybody had a more concrete argument either way.

[Carl Hibbard]

The Kasparov knight back is well just cheating to be honest! Look to the heavens laugh about it and resign

[LawrenceCooper]

They seem afraid of him.

So off to a flier, crushing Kasparov in 25 moves in the first game of the day.

Who? Moves?

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... rov/15/1/2 Round 12 starting soon, scores So 7/11, Naka 6, Kasparov 5, Caruana 4.

[Carl Hibbard]

I'm not close to being home sorry so train and mobile is the best I can do.

[Jonathan Bryant]

The Kasparov knight back is well just cheating to be honest! Look to the heavens laugh about it and resign

Which one? This one or the Polgar one?


If you meant the one against Nakamura, there have been quite a few people on twitter today determined to tell me that it wasn’t/there’s no story.

[Roger de Coverly]

If you meant the one against Nakamura,

I would regard it as a convention in what for want of a better word, could be described as "social blitz", that you can take a move back if you spot an obvious blunder before pressing the clock. The Americans, it appears, even have a name for it "clock move". For more formal tournaments the recent incident suggests a need to remind players of what rules are being followed.