Happens all the time at my chess club xD
Usually we start wondering why my king was in check for 10 moves and how we shall continue now... xD
Only happens in blitz tho
Beginners often make illegal moves. Nothing unusual.
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Classical right. 90+30. To be honest, I myself do not know whether a defeat is now being made in one illegal move in blitz. The rules have changed many times, but it seems that there is no defeat for one illegal move, even in blitz
In an OTB long time control game, when I was returning to the board, my opponent placed his knight on a square where it would be en prise, and he quickly tried to pick it up. I told him that I wasn't going to enforce the rule, and he could play a different move.
Larry Evans told me a story of a game where he was losing badly (as opposed to losing goodly?), and, as a last ditch effort, he made an illegal move. IIRC, he tried o move his queen from b2 to g6, "hoping" the long move would make them miss the error. Of course, the two had a laugh, and Evans resigned.
no se
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I never have..😲
Here is a short story to distract:
Some years ago, my uncle used to drive me to places because I did not have my own car. One time, he drove me to the post office. I remember very well that it was snowing. Now, I opened this silver Audi A4, and I clearly remember how the driver looked at me first before he said, " Sorry wrong car". And I looked at his face and said, "Oh sorry", and closed the door behind me. I was laughing silently from the embarrassment. I think I saw the man was laughing too. My uncle stood only two cars away, saw everything, "What is up with you?" I'm still like this some times.
So much about illegal move (:)
Not really an illegal move, but, meh. Close enough. But it was my opponents move, not mine.
It was a regional finals, towards the national school championship.
I had white pieces, and i "trapped" a rook. The rook could still move, but it was dead wherever it landed, the only safe square was where it currently was. I was ahead in space and had better piece placing. And i only needed a draw.
We were the last game of the tourney, so everyone was watching, it was an ending, just like 2 mins each at that stage. So this guy touched and lifted the rook. Then he realized the mistake, placed it back down where it was, then it made some other move. Everyone watched, but everyone kept silent. I saw it too, But since i was ahead, i was very confident, and i have never ever been in that situation before, nor after, so i decided to ignore it instead of calling a referee.
I chocked and ended up losing the game. The sucker took my spot at nationals. Ended up with a huge depression after and i quitted chess for a long time.
