Hi,
I were watching
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeL8RJtTz9c and around 46:00 Yasser said that if you let go in blitz you can still take the piece back and change your move if clock is not pressed! This looks very weird to me. Tried to find FIDE rules for this, but could not. Anyone?
Kasparov did the same in the game vs Naka so far.
but that's forbidden.
I'm not sure but it might also be a uscf rule and not a fide rule. Such rules are very obscure and almost never come up, so it's possible that Yasser thought it was a fide rule when really it was a uscf rule only.
USCF blitz rules are also that the legal move is completed when the hand leaves the piece.
Just confused :)
Later on in that event they asked the arbiter to clarify. The arbiter said that Yasser was wrong: once the hand leaves the piece, the move is made. Nakamura could have called Kasparov on it and Kasparov would have lost the game. Nakamura chose not to because he thought it "wasn't in the spirit of the event."
I was recently informed at my blitz tournament in March (USCF rated / Not FIDE rated) your move is made once you play it. If your hand leaves the piece you must make the move even if it is illegal. If you make an illegal move you lose the game if your opponent calls you out on it.
In unrated events like these it is respect that something like that does not change the game. Somewhat similar where I think it was Nepomniachtchi did not call Karpov out on castling illegally. It was clearly illegal. But... In unrated, "for show only", blitz it is a matter of respect to not worry about it. I would not call Kasparov or Naka out on something as silly as that if we played unrated. Its respect...
Yasser knows the rule very well. I have no idea why he would say that.
Baised on the Youtube video i saw I came up with the conclusion the Yasser is Obviously a fan boy for Garry Kasparov and made some epic fail excuse to defend cheating (on this instance) by Kasparov he is a world champion he knows the rules and yet he still broke it if i was in Garry's position i would of called the arbiter on myself XD. One could argue that he did it on purpose to mess with Nakamura's head just to get him off balance it's like angle shooting in poker people do it to get a read or just to mess with the opponents people know it's against the rules but they still do it.
@IM Sparklehorse congrats you are in the top 100 for USA FIDE :D
#7 #8 Seirawan later clarified that he was mistaken and confused. I prefer to imagine he's telling the truth and has no ulterior motive.
@Toadofsky if thats the case it's all good then but did Garry admit what he did was wrong though? If he did not admit what he did was wrong it's pretty easy to reach the conclusion that he likes to break the rules when it suits him.
