Inspired by Ken Ballou’s document on the differences between US Chess and FIDE rules, pdxchess.org/wp-content/uploads/ … rences.pdf. Did I get everything right?
Thoughts?
That it’s at least twice as long as it needs to be.
I think one reason nobody is posting to this thread is that everybody thinks there are way, way too many differences between FIDE and USCF, and between regular and blitz.
USCF should be moving toward FIDE, or maybe in a few cases the other way around, and blitz should be moving toward regular. Differences should exist only where absolutely necessary. Some day, maybe instead of four rule sets – FIDE regular, USCF regular, FIDE blitz, and USCF blitz – there could be just one, with differences noted within the one set.
Bill Smythe
What about differences between the US Chess rulebook rules and the scholastic council rules? I’m not going to touch CCA.
Alex Relyea
Ideally these shouldn’t be differences, but extensions of the existing rules. I haven’t reviewed them enough to know if that is the case currently.
CCA has tournament rules which are posted: “REG, SD: When castling, promoting or capturing, a player may use two hands.”
Honestly, of all the blitz tournaments that I have ran (Nationals, CCA, etc) - the only problems I have is spectators crowding around top boards.
As for the list, it was tldr, imo.