- Arbiter's Corner: Notes & Queries
- The BYE: Should we accept its existence?
- Who should get the BYE?
- 2 paired players get 1 point each after one forfeits
- Organisers corner: slacker-friendly club round robins
- What should the consequences be for Someone who cheats???
- Swiss Perfect and pairing errors
- Articles G4-G6 (was Rule 10.2)
- Article 9.2 Question
- Tournament Instructions
- Question about DGTs and lightning
- article 9.5
- swiss perfect database importing
- tournament withdrawals
- Is the mobile phone rule draconian?
- Pressing the clock before promoting
- New Laws of Chess as of 1st July 2005
- Writing imoves down first
- Seeding question
- Draw etiquette (was "inaudible mutterings")
- FIDE approved clocks
- Arbiting FR
- New regulations for Arbiter titles
- DOP Fees
- Doeberl Cup Arbiting Hypotheticals
- Top v Bottom or Colour
- Basic Tournament rights and rules
- Does checkmate end the game?
- She's a stunner
- Scheveningen match online resource
- LIbby asks a chess question!
- potential double illegal move? what happens next?
- Changing computer pairings/ Pairing Programs
- one hour plus one minute time limit
- Is nodding off during game permited?
- Accelerating 1 or 2 rounds in a 7 round Swiss
- Being an Arbiter, tough job?
- Article 8.1
- Appeals Committee's
- Pairing concerns
- Chesscafe article
- Setting up a round robin tournament
- Unfair rule re recording when under 5 minutes.
- Protos
- Savic's "Commentary on the Laws of Chess"
- Article B7. Rapidplay
- Insufficient material?
- Illegal Moves Question
- Last round colour vs top/bottom (from Queenstown)
- PROTOS experiment
- Draw by Repition in blitz
- 2006 City Of Brisbane Championships
- Checkmate with a move that would otherwise invoke the 50-move-rule.
- Article 9.2a?
- Article 12.5(sf. Rapidly improving Adults)
- questions!
- Fire Alarm during a Tournament
- clarification needed: what is a move?
- FIDE-approved Swiss Pairing Programs
- writing down moves
- Swiss Pairing software testing and Doeberl pairings
- Last Round Swiss Pairings
- Tie Break Question
- Round 11 Australian Championship
- acceleration in swiss master 5
- Rules lectures before play (sf support our chess admins)
- Poll: Complaint Against Kb's D.o.p. Style
- Flag claim during followed by time section
- Game agreed drawn after one players flag fall.
- Is it a legal move?
- Taking the King - Blitz Chess Rule Change
- Another pairing experiment
- 2006 Gold Coast Open Pairings
- Buchholz tiebreaks
- Who forfeits
- 2 knights plus king v king
- Can time be added to a player's clock after flagfall?
- swiss pairing program endorsed by FIDE
- Applying 6.10
- Touch move rule
- Swiss systems : Lim and Dutch
- FIDE Time Control for major events
- FIDE Swiss Rules
- Opponent Forgets to Press Clock - What to Do?
- 40 moves in x time control
- Swiss pairing question
- Alarm sounding on a turned-off mobile phone (sf. 2006 Ryde-Eastwood Open)
- calculation of x for heterogeneous bracket
- Why downfloated twice?
- To ring or not to ring.
- Changing incorrect publicly released draws: a curiosity
- To grant color preference.
- Interesting blitz ruling
- Need more active Arbiters
- Handshakes
- Swiss pairing for team by Swiss Master
- Pairing program for macs
- what is the standing of 50 move claims in the absence of a score sheet?
- King capture bug in made/completed provisions?
- Correspondence Boo Boos
- clock not adding increment
- Swiss system 20 years ago
- Standard or Rapidplay?
- Blitz/Rapidplay FIDE rules
- Games::Tournament::Swiss released
- Increments vs Guillotine
- Clocks behaving strangely.
- Recording the move before moving
- Mobile phone goes off: what score for opponent?
- IA/FA title regulations
- Making an illegal move in Blitz and Rapid
- Zonal manual pairings
- Frightfully simple SwissPerfect question
- Help needed with FIDE Swiss pairing rules
- Appeal Committee
- Handshake to be enforced by FIDE
- 2005 FIDE Laws of Chess on FIDE website finally correct
- What constitutes an illegal move in blitz?
- should creditation be required by all arbiters
- Another sp error?
- Update version if there is
- Playing on in a ridiculously hopeless position
- Calling/Announcing Check
- When does the game start?
- Darling Downs mobile phone, appeal rights (sf illegal move in blitz)
- Swiss Manager & Buchholz's calculation
- Couple questions about allegro
- Swiss pairing - Rule C.11
- Help with FIDE Swiss pairing
- 'penultimate bracket' ambiguous
- Incorporation of B3-B6 into pairing procedure C (Swiss Dutch)
- How are colours determined for 1st round
- What is the correct pairing?
- I don't understand Guert Gijssen's reasoning
- Do arbiters deserve respect??
- Winning a Tournament by Countback???
- Mating material when pieces are promoted to wrong colour
- SP SP error
- SPDE format
- More Clocks - Does Black Decide The Side?
- Swiss Master v SwissPerfect
- 7-player, no-win-no-loss tourney round 4 conspiracy
- Absences skew the draw
- B&W preference test
- Players turning up late sf. FIDE World Cup 2007
- Rapidplay double flag fall
- Player short of time wishing to go to the toilet
- A player erroneously believes that he is mated and shakes hands; what result?
- Upcoming FIDE Laws Of Chess Revision
- A Missing Piece
- Illegal move discovered late
- Wrong clock setting (from www.chesscafe.com)
- How many moves allowed when one king
- Blitz chess, mating potential
- Latest chesscafe article by Geurt Gijssen
- Blitz - illegal move vs flagfall
- Scheveningen Pairing System
- The Good Behaviour Thread
- Sofia rules or no draws before move 30?
- Short draws: a fact of chess, or do we need rules to try to stop them?
- 12.1 The disrepute rule: what does it mean?
- Shoe discussion continued from Good behaviour thread
- Not wearing footwear at chess
- proposed warning for mobile phone sf. third footwear poll
- Ok 2 queries for you guys
- So you want to be an arbiter? Join us now!
- "Piecutter" armageddon blitz tiebreak concept
- Complaint by Irina Krush.
- What is the result?
- Second round pairings, who gets which colour.
- Couple of questions
- Flagfall vs draw offer?
- Lightning
- 2008 Olympiad forfeiture rule
- Spectator counting moves for time control etc.
- 2009 Fide laws of chess- current situation
- Choice of Sets
- Changes in the 1st July 2009 Laws of Chess - what do they mean
- Swiss Pairing issues at Queenstown
- Late entries
- What does the arbiter do?
- FA Garvin Gray
- FA Graeme Gardiner
- 2009 FIDE Laws of Chess Effective 1st July 2009
- Player not writing down moves
- who are arbiters answerable to?
- enforced draw for late-finishing games
- Resignation in response to illegal move, other illegal move issues sf. SIO 2009
- SwissPerfect or Other
- US Championships 2009
- Colours for late entry
- Moving before recording opponent's move
- the wrong hand
- en passant
- Swissperfect help pls
- Proposal of new draw rule 9.7
- repetition claims
- Spectator interference
- What do players do?
- what does he/she play?
- Difference between forfeits and late entry
- Swiss Rule F2 not clear
- Legal mate in illegal game
- Is this a correct Blitz game?
- Changing pairings, big no/no
- 40 move time control with increments
- Puzzles: FIDE imposes weird checkmates
- adjusting on opponent's time!
- web pairing application user interface
- Short Draws - please vote
- Illegal move/Unlawful move
- Check!!! To call or not to call!
- Illegal position in Geurt's article
- FIDE pairing web application
- Stalemated player resigns
- Was I correct?
- Drunk chess star dozes off, concedes match at Kolkata Open
- Burstein Pairing System
- Loss on time
- Discretion with respect to mobile phone rule?
- Should a witness to an incident serve on an appeals committee?
- Draconian rule forfeits
- Pairing situation
- Chess kids video
- Retrograde mobile phone case
- Promotion to pawn...
- Incorrectly agreeing you've been mated is not the same as resigning
- DOP/TD also being a player?
- A headache of a scenario
- Arbiter's qualifications
- Setting the new FIDE time
- ACF code of ethics
- Headphones during play
- IMs at Zonals
- Playing taking back move when opponent is not around
- Lowest ranked player gets first round 1 point bye?
- Simultaneous Checkmate & Flagfall
- Accelerated vs Abominated Swiss Pairings :)
- Why not add time after 40 moves?
- Ending recording when 5 minutes is left
- Fairer prize distribution
- Recording of Moves
- Illegal move
- Flag fall - when is it a loss?
- An elegant triple rep definition
- 4th Chess Organisers Handbook
- Did Geurt actually answer the question?
- New swiss Dutch pairing engine
- Should arbiters be paid with tips?
- Distracting or worrying the opponent: verbal abuse