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RULE the GAME Of CHESS

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Rules of the game of Chess of the International Chess Federation (F.I.D.E.) cover the totality of situations of game on the chessboard met in roquenament. The English text constitutes the original Rule version of the Game of Chess, such that it has Summer adopted by 67ème congress of FIDE in September - October 1996 to Erevan, and it between in application it 1st July 1997.

In these rules, terms "player" and "it" have to hear so to the male that to the feminine.

SUMMARY :

ARTICLE 1. The nature and objectives of the game of chess.
ARTICLE 2. The initial piece position on the chessboard.
ARTICLE 3.MOVEMENT OF PIECES.
ARTICLE 4. THE DISPLACEMENT OF PIECES.
ARTICLE 5.END OF THE GAME.
ARTICLE 6. THE PENDULUM Of CHESS.
ARTICLE 7. ILLEGAL POSITIONS.
ARTICLE 8. THE NOTATION OF MOVES.
ARTICLE 9. THE NULL GAME.
ARTICLE 10. PURPOSES OF GAME TO the K.O.
ARTICLE 11. THE SCORE.
ARTICLE 12. THE CONDUCT OF PLAYERS.
ARTICLE 13. THE ROLE OF The ARBITER (to See the preamble).
ARTICLE 14. The F.I.D.E.
ARTICLE 15. ANNEX A. " adjourned games".
ARTICLE 16. ANNEX B. "THE GAME SEMI - RAPID".
ARTICLE 17. ANNEX C. "THE BLITZ".
ARTICLE 18. ANNEX D. " PURPOSES OF GAME TO the K.O. WHEN NO ARBITRATION IS INSURED".
ARTICLE 19. ANNEX E. "THE ALGEBRAIC NOTATION".

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Text amended by the commission of Rules of the F.I.D.E. Congress of the F.I.D.E. - Erevan 1996 .

PREAMBLE.

Rules of the Game of Chess can not cover the field of all situations being able to occur in the course of a game, neither to govern all administrative questions. When of cases are not explicitly ruled by an Article of Rules of the Game of Chess, one would have then be able to find a correct decision by studying analogous situations to those describe in Rules of the Game Chess.

These Rules imply that arbiters possess generally the competence voulue, a healthy judgement and an absolute objectivity. A too precise regulation would deprive the arbiter of its liberty of judgement and would prevent it thus to solve a problem by a just solution, equitable and dictation by gameicular factors.

The F.I.D.E. demand to all players of Chess and to all federations to admit this point view.

A federation that applies already or would want to apply more detailed rules is free the to make under reserve that :
they not contradict in no way official Rules of the F.I.D.E.
they remain limited to territories depending this federation
they are not applied during matches, championships or encounters
qualifying of the F.I.D.E., neither to roquenaments being able to count for the classification, or
the obtaining of a title of the F.I.D.E.

In these Rules, terms "player" and "it" have to hear so to the male that to the feminine.

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ARTICLE 1. The nature and objectives of the game of chess.

1.1 The game of Chess plays between two adversaries that move alternately of pieces on a called square tray chessboard. The player having white pieces begin the game. A player " has the line " when its adversary has ended its move.
1.2 The each player objective is to put the adverse king in " chess " of such manner that the adversary has no legal move that could avoid the plug of the king to the move following. When a player gets there, one tells that it " has check-mated " the adversary and earned the game. The adversary that has been check-mated has lost the game.
1.3 If the position is such that none the two players has the possibility to check-mate, the game is null.

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ARTICLE 2. The initial piece position on the chessboard.

2.1 The chessboard is composed 64 squares similarly alternately clear surface (the white squares) and deepened ( black squares).

2.2 In the beginning of a game, a player has 16 clear pieces ( pieces "white") and the other of 16 deepened pieces ( pieces such "blacks").The chessboard is placed between players of manner that the square of angle to straight of each player is white.
These pieces are following :
-One White king having for usual symbol: K
-One White queen having for usual symbol: Q
-Two White roques having for usual symbol: R
-Two white Bishops having for usual symbol: B
-Two white Knignts having for usual symbol: N
-Eight White pawns having for usual symbol: P
-One Black king having for usual symbol: K
-One Black queen having for usual symbol: Q
-Two Black roques having for usual symbol: R
-Two black Bishops having for usual symbol: B
-Two black Knignts having for usual symbol: N
-Eight Black pawns having for usual symbol: P
2.3 The initial piece position on the chessboard is the following
2.4 The eight vertical square rows are called "columns". The eight rows of horizontal squares are called "cross". A straight square line similarly color, touching by angles, is called "diagonal".

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ARTICLE 3. THE MOVEMENT OF PIECES.

3.1 No piece can displace on a busy square by a piece similarly color. If a piece displaces on a busy square by an adverse piece, this last is captured and pulled of the chessboard as left integral at the same time .

According to Articles 3.2 - 3.5, one tells that a piece attacks a square if it can possibly to undertake a plug on this square.

3.2 a) The queen displaces on all square of the column, crosses it or the diagonals on which it is found.

3.2 b) The roque displaces on all square of the column, crosses it on which it is found.

3.2 c) The bishop displaces on all square of one or the other diagonal on which it be finds. By undertaking these movements, the queen, the roque or the bishop can not displace to the over an other piece.

3.3 The Knignt.

The knignt displaces on one of place them the closest to that on which it be finds, but on the same column, crosses or diagonal. It does not pass directly to the over an intermediate square.

3.4 The Pawn.

(a) The pawn displaces forwards on the immediately unoccupied square across from it on the same column, or

(b) to its first move it can advance two squares on the same column to condition that they are unoccupied, or

(c) it displaces on the busy place by an adverse piece, situated diagonally in face of it on the adjacent column, and capture thus this piece.

(d) A Pawn, attacking the square crossed by an adverse Pawn that has been advanced two squares from its initial position, can take this Pawn as if it had not been advanced that a square. This plug can take place only in response moment to the two advance squares of the adverse Pawn. It is called the "plug by passing".

(e) When a pawn accesss to crosses it the most distanced of its position of degameure, it has to be exchanged, as left integral at the same time, against a Queen, a Roque, a Bishop or a knignt of the same color. The player does not have to limit its choice to pieces that have been previously captured. The exchange of a pawn against a other piece is called "promotion" and the piece promue is immediately operational.

3.5 The King.
(a) The King can displace two different manners ; is :
I)on one of adjacent squares that is not attacked by an adverse piece.
II) By the "castle". It is a movement of the King and one of r, cash for a move of King and undertaken of the next manner: the King is displaced two squares to to leave from its initial square, on the even crosses and in direction of the roque; the roque is then displaced over the King on the last places that the former comes to cross.
(1) The castle is illegal
(a) if the King has already moved, or
(b) with a roque that has already been displaced.
(2) The castle is momentarily prevented
(a) if the initial square of the King or that that it has to cross or occupy is attacked by an adverse piece, or
(b) if a mediocre piece is found between the King and the roque with which it castle has to be undertaken. The king is "in failure", if it is attacked by an or several adverse pieces, even if these pieces can not move themselves. The announcement of the failure is not obligatory. A player does not have to play a move that puts or leaves its clean king in failure.
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ARTICLE 4. THE DISPLACEMENT OF PIECES.
4.1 Each move has to be undertaken an alone hand.
4.2 To as much that it expresses its intention (for example by telling "I put to rights"), the player having the line can rectify the position of an or several pieces on their square.
4.3 Under reserve of the Article 4.2, if the player having the line touches deliberately on the chessboard :
a) an or several pieces similarly color, it has to move or take the first touched piece that can be moved or plug, or
b) an each color piece, it has to take the adverse piece with its piece or, if this is not possible, to move or take the first touched piece that can be moved or plug. In the absence of an other obviousness, one will consider that the clean piece of the player will have been touched before of its adversary.
4.4 a) If a player touches deliberately a castle then its king, it is not authorized to castler of this side during this move and one will rule then this case according to the Article 4.3.
4.4 b)If a player intending castler touch first the king or the king and the roque simultaneously, while the castle on this side is impossible, it has to choose is castler of the other side, for as much that this castle is possible, is to displace the king. If the king can not be moved, the player is free to undertake does not import what other move possible.
4.5 If none of the touched pieces can be moved or plug, the player can then to undertake does not import what other possible move.
4.6 If the adversary infringes the Article 4.3 or 4.4, the player can not request if it has himself deliberately touched a piece.
4.7 When, during of a legal move or as belonging a legal move, a piece has Summer dropped on a square, it can not be displaced on an other square. One considers the executed move when all conditions of the Article 3 have been respected.

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ARTICLE 5. THE END OF THE GAME.
5.1 a) The game is earned by the player that has check-mated the adverse king with a legal move. This puts fine immediately to the game.
b) The game is earned by the player whose adversary declares that it abandons. This puts immediately fine at the game.
5.2 The game is null when the player having the line 'a no possible move and that its king is not in failure. One tells while the game ends by a "stalemate". This puts immediately fine at the game.
5.3 The game is null if the two players decide it a common agreement. This puts immediately fine at the game. (to see the Article 9.1)
5.4 The game can be null if an identical position is apparue three time on the chessboard. (to see the Article 9.2)
5.5 The game can be null if 50 last consecutive moves have you ' played by each player without pawns neither plug movement of pieces. (to see the Article 9.3)

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ARTICLE 6. THE PENDULUM Of CHESS.
6.1 The "pendulum" of chess is a supplied double pendulum of two mechanisms of horlogerie therefore two hourly dials, connected one to the other of such manner that alone one of the two could function both. The term "pendulum" designates in these one regulations of these two mechanisms and dials. The fall of the "flag" means that the time granted to one of the players is flowed.
6.2 By using a pendulum of chess, each player has to undertake a certain number of moves in a given time, or can see to attribute a supplementary time lapse after each move. Whole this has to be specified in advance. The unused time by one of player during of a period of game will be credited it for the next period, excepted in the time cadence differed. In the cadence " deferred time", the two players receive a " main reflection time". They benefit equally of a " permanent supplementary time " for each of moves. The deduction of the time principal begins only after the expiration of the supplementary time. PROVIDED THAT the player stops its pendulum before the expiration of the supplementary time, the time of reflection of the time principal does not vary, without taking into account the supplementary time proportion used.
6.3 Each dial has a "flag". Immediately after the fall of the flag, dispositions of the Article 8.1 have to be applied.
6.4 The arbiter decides the place where the pendulum of chess is placed.
6.5 Has the hour fixed for the beginning of the game, the pendulum of the player having whites is put in step.
6.6 The player will lose the game, if it arrives ahead the chessboard with more of a hour of delay after the fixed beginning schedule pa the competition (safe if it are otherwise, is spécifié by the regulations of the competition, is decided by the arbiter).
6.7 a) During the game, each player, having executed its move on the chessboard, will stop its clean pendulum and will put in step that its adversary. A player has always to have the possibility to stop its pendulum. So that it has not stopped it, one considers that its move is not finished, except if the undertaken move puts an end to the game. (To see Articles 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3) The time understood between the execution of the move on the chessboard and the stop of the pendulum is considered as left the time allocated to the player.
(b) A player has to stop its pendulum with the same hand that has undertaken the move. It is forbidden to push over violently, to seize it or to reverse it. An incorrect manipulation will be penalized according to the Article 13.4.
6.8 One considers that the flag has fallen when the arbiter observes the fact or that either one the two players has duly asked that this fact be observed.
6.9 Outside of the application of Articles 5.1, 5.2 or 5.3, the game is lost by the player that has not finished the number of prescribed moves at one time granted. However the game is null, if the position is such that the adversary can not check-mate by no legal move continuation (it is to tell even against a game of the most mediocre).
6.10 All indication given by pendulums is considered as definitive in the absence of evident defect. A pendulum of chess presenting a manifest defectiveness will be inevitably replaced. The arbiter will make proof the greatest perception to estimate times to display on the pendulum of replacement.
6.11 If the two flags have fallen and that it is impossible to establish which has fallen the first, the game will continue.
6.12 a) If it is necessary to interrupt the game, the arbiter will stop pendulums.
b) A player can stop pendulums to seek the asistance of the arbiter.
c) The arbiter will decide the resumption of the game.
6.13 If an irregularity appears and/or if pieces have to be replaced in a position anterior, the arbiter will make proof the greatest perception to estimate times to display on the pendulum.
6.14 Screens, instructors, or chessboards of demonstration showing the under way position, moves and the number of played moves, are authorized in the game room as well as of pendulums displaying equally the number of moves. However, the player can make no complaint in leaning on what is exposed this manner.

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ARTICLE 7. ILLEGAL POSITIONS.
7.1a) If, during a game, one observes that the initial piece position was incorrect, the game will be cancelled and a new game will be played.
7.1b) If, during a game, one observes that the position of the chessboard is not true to the prescriptions of the Article 2.1, the continuous game, but the position reached has to be transferred on a correctly had chessboard.
7.2 If a game has begun with unduly inverted colors, it will continue except if the arbiter decides some otherwise.
7.3 If a player disturbs accidentally an or several pieces, it will re-establish the correct position on its clean time. If necessary, the adversary has the right to relaunch the pendulum of the player, without to play move, to insure the respect of this rule.
7.4Si, during the game, one observes that an irregular move has been played, the position will be re-established such that it was before the irregularity. If one can not make it, the game will continue from the last anterior identifiable position to the irregularity. In agreement with the Article 6.13, pendulums will be réajustées ; in the case of an illegal move, one will apply on the move replacing the Article 4.3 . The game will be able then to continue.

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ARTICLE 8. THE NOTATION OF MOVES.
8.1 During the game, each player has to note its clean moves and these its adversary, move afterwards, as clearly and legibly as possible, in notation algebraic (Annex E), on the expected game leaf for the competition. If it it wishes, a player can reply to the move of its adversary before to note it, but only if it has noted its clean preceding move. An offer of nullity has to be registered on the leaf of game by the two players (Annex E.12) If a player, for a religious or physical reason, is in the impossibility to note, the arbiter will deduce it a game of time that is allocated it in the beginning the game
8.2 The leaf of game has to be visible by the arbiter in all opportunity.
8.3 Leaves of games are the property of organizers of the competition.
8.4 If a player possesses less five minutes to its pendulum and does not benefit from a additional time of 30 seconds or more to each move, then it is not obliged to respect conditions requises of the Article 8.1. Immediately after the fall of a flag, the player has to put to day its leaf of game.
8.5 If, in application of the Article 8.4, none of the players is in the obligation of to note, the arbiter or its assistant would have to make its possible to assist and note. In this case, the arbiter, immediately after the fall of a flag, will stop pendulums. Then, each of the two players will complete its game leaf, by using that the arbiter or that its adversary.
(a) If in application of the Article 8.4, alone one of the players is not obliged to note, it has to complete its game leaf from the fall of one of the flags. PROVIDED THAT it has the line, it can use the leaf of its adversary. The player can not play before to have completed its clean leaf and rendered that its adversary.
(b) If no leaf of game is entirely complete, players have to reconstitute the game on a second chessboard, under the control of the arbiter or its assistant, that will have to the preliminary to have taken note the position of the under way game before to put in place the reconstitution.
8.6 If leaves of game are not in state to show that a player has exceeded the time granted, the next move will be considered as the first of the period of next time, safe if it is evident that more moves have been played.

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ARTICLE 9. THE NULL GAME.
9.1 A player can propose the nullity after having played a move on the chessboard. It has to make it before to push on its pendulum. A such suitable offer differently be always valid, but infringes the Article 12.5. It is always unconditional. In the two cases, the offer can not be pulled and valid rest until what the adversary accepts it, rejects it orally or by playing a move ; or well until what the game ends otherwise. The offer of nullity will be noted by each player on its leaf of game and represented by the sign (=).
9.2 The game is null, upon request of the player having the line, when the same position, for the third time ( necessarily consecutively) :
a) is goinged to appear, if it writes first its move on its leaf of game and declares to arbitrates it its intention to play this move, or
b) comes to appear. Positions as some a) and b) been considered as being the same when, the same player having the line, pieces similarly nature and similarly color occupy the same place and have all the same possibilities of game. Positions are different, if a pawn could have been taken by passing, or if possibilities of castle no longer are the same of a position to the other.
9.3 The game is null, upon request of the player having the line, :
a) if 50 last consecutive moves have been executed by each of players without movement pawn or plug of piece, or
b) if it written on its leaf of game , and announces its intention to play, the move having for consequence that 50 last consecutive moves will be then executed by each of players without pawn neither plug movement of piece.
9.4 If a player executes a move, without having asked the nullity as stipulate Articles 9.2 or 9.3, it loses this right during this move.
9.5 If a player requests the nullity in application of the Article 9.2 or 9.3, it will stop immediately the two pendulums. It has not the right to pull its demand.
a) If demand proves based, the game is declared immediately null.
b) If demand proves unjustified, the arbiter will remove, until a three maximum minutes, the half of the time remaining to the pendulum of the caller, and will add three minutes to that its adversary. The game will continue then and the proposed move will have to be played.
9.6 The game is null when in a same position, a checkmate can not happen by none legal move continuation, even by the most mediocre game. That puts immediately fine at the game.

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ARTICLE 10. THE END OF GAME to the K.O
10.1 An end of game to the K.O is the last phase of a game, when all next moves have to be executed in a time limited.
10.2 If a player has less of two minutes to its pendulum, it can request the nullity before that its flag does not fall. It will stop then pendulums and will call the arbiter.
a) If the arbiter is convinced that the adversary makes no effort to earn by normal means or if it is impossible to earn by normal means, then it will declare the null game. In the case contrary it will give its decision until later.
b) In this last case, the adversary can benefit from two minutes of reflection time supplementary and the game will continue in the presence of the arbiter.
c) After having given the time to decide, the arbiter can thereafter declare the null game, even after the fall of a flag.
10.3 Illegal moves do not entail inevitably the loss of the game. In agreement with the Article 7.4 , to the first as to the second illegal move undertaken by a same player, the arbiter will give to each time two supplementary minutes to the adversary ; to the third illegal move of this same player, arbitrates it will declare it loser.
10.4 If the two flags have fallen and that it is impossible to establish which has fallen the first, the game is null.

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ARTICLE 11. THE SCORE.
11.1 A player that earns its game marks a point (1), a player that loses its game marks from point (0) and a player that cancels its game marks a half point (1/2).

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ARTICLE 12. THE CONDUCT OF PLAYERS.
12.1 An exemplary behavior is demanded the share of players.
12.2 During the game, it is forbidden to players to make note usage, sources of information, or to analyze on an other chessboard. The leaf of game will be used solely for the notation of the moves, times indicated by pendulums, the offer of nullity, and the bishope relative to a complaint.
12.3 When a transfer of game is under way, no analysis is authorized in the game room, neither by players, nor by spectators. Players that have finished their games will be considered as spectators.
12.4 Players are not authorized to leave "the area of game" without the permission of the arbiter. The area of game is defined as being the space of game, toilets, the buvette, the smoker space situated to share, and the other sites designated by the arbiter. The player having the line is not authorized to to leave the space of game without the permission of the arbiter.
12.5 It is forbidden to amuse or to disturb the some manner adversary that this is ; this includes proposals of null repeated.
12.6 The infringement to Articles 12.2 to 12.5 (game or totality) will give place to penalties defined by the Article 13.4.
12.7 The game is lost by a player that refuses obstinately to respect Rules of the Game. The arbiter will decide the score of the adversary.
12.8 If the two players are sanctioned in application of the Article 12.7, the game will be declared lost for the two.

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ARTICLE 13. THE ROLE OF The ARBITER.(to see the preamble)
13.1 The arbiter will insure the strict observation of Rules of the Game of Chess.
13.2 The arbiter will act in the best interest of the competition. It will insure that the totality of the former unfolds in good conditions of game and that nothing comes to disturb are players. It veillera to the good walks the competition.
13.3 The arbiter will supervise games, especially when players will be to court of time, will make to apply decisions that it will be able to pronounce and inflicts penalties to players if necessary.
13.4 The arbiter can give next penalties :
a) a warning, or
b)
the increase of the time of the adversary, or
c) the diminution of the time of the incriminated player, or d) to declare the lost game, or e) the expulsion of the castlenament.
13.5 The arbiter can attribute to one or to the two players a supplementary time lapse to the case or the game would have been disturbed by external events to the former.
13.6 The arbiter does not have to intervene in the game to indicate the number of moves played, excepted when in application of the Article 8.5, at least a player has used all its time. It will abstain nformer the player, that its adversary has played a move, or that it has neglected to push on its pendulum.
13.6 Spectators and players others games have neither to speak nor intervene in no manner about a game. If necessary, the arbiter will expel offenders of the game room .

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ARTICLE 14. The F.I.D.E..
14.1 Member federations have the possibility to ask the FIDE an official decision to relative problem purpose to Rules of the Game.

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ANNEX. ARTICLE 15. ANNEX A. " adjourned games".
15.1 a) If a game is not ended at the end of the granted time , the arbiter will demand the player having the line that it puts its "move under envelope". The player has to register its move a manner no ambiguous on the leaf of game, to put this leaf and that its adversary in an envelope, to seal the envelope and only then to stop its pendulum. The player has the right to modify the move put under envelope so that it has not stopped its pendulum without relaunching that its adversary. If the player executes its move on the chessboard, after having been informed by the arbiter that it had to put its move under envelope, it has to register this same move on its leaf of game and to put it under envelope.
15.1 b) A player having the line, that adjourns its game before the end of the session, will be considered as adjourned per hour anticistalemateed for the end of the session.
15.2 Next information will be registered on the envelope:
(a) names of players
(b) the position to the moment of the postponement
(c) times used by each of players
(d) the name of the player that has put its move under envelope
(e) the number of this move.
(f) the offer of nullity, if the proposal has been bishope before the adjournment
(g) the date, the hour, and the place of resumption of the game.
15.3 The arbiter will control the accuracy of information write on the envelope and it is responsible the safeguard of the former.
15.4 If a player proposes the nullity after that its adversary has adjourned, the offer remains valid until what this last accepts it or rejects it as indicated in the Article 9.1.
15.5 Before the resumption of the game, the position to the moment of the adjournment will be reconstituted and the times used by the two players will be indicated on pendulums.
15.6 If, before the resumption, players have suited to make null, or if one of players announces to the arbiter that it abandons, the game is ended.
15.7 The envelope will be opened only when the player that has to reply to the move under the envelope is present.
15.8 Safe in cases mentioned to Articles 6.9 and 9.6 ; the game is lost for the player having put under envelopes a move
a) ambiguous, or
b) false, or such manner that its real meaning is impossible to establish, or
c) illegal.
15.9 If, per hour suited the resumption,
a) the player ahead to reply to the move under envelope is present, then, the envelope is opened , the move under envelope is executed on the chessboard, and the pendulum is given in step.
b) the player ahead to reply to the move under envelope is absent, its pendulum will be put in step. TO its arrival, it can stop its pendulum and to call the arbiter. The envelope is then opened and this move under envelope played on the chessboard. Its pendulum is then given in step.
c) the player having put the move under envelope is absent, its adversary has the right to register its reply on the leaf of game, to put the former in a new envelopes, to stop its pendulum and to start that its adversary instead of to undertake its move the normal manner. This envelope will be given to the arbiter that will keep it and it will be opened to the arrival of its adversary.
15.10 The game is lost for the player that arrives with more of a hour of delay for the resumption of a game adjourned. However, this disposition is not applied if the move has been put under envelope by the late player and that it appears that :
a) the absent player has earned the game by having put under envelopes a move of checkmate, or
b) the absent player has provoked the nullity by having put under envelope, is a move of stalemate, is a move driving to a position described in the Article 9.6, or
c) the present player ahead the chessboard has lost the game by virtue the Article 6.9.
15.11 a) If the envelope containing the adjourned move is lost, the game will continue from the position and times to the moment of the adjournment. If the time used by each player can not to be established, pendulums will be ruled by the arbiter. The adjourned player will execute the move under envelope on the chessboard.
15.11 b) If it is impossible to re-establish the position, the game is cancelled and a new game has to be played.
15.12 If, to the resumption of the game, the time has been incorrectly indicated on one and/or the other of the pendulums and that one of players in fact the remark before to have executed its first move, the error has to be corrected. If the error is not observed in time, the game continues without correction of the time, unless the arbiter estimates only consequences are too severe.
15.13 The duration of the period of game for adjourned games will be controlled by the pendulum of the arbiter. The hour of beginning and the end of the session will be announced in advance .

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ARTICLE 16. ANNEX B . "THE GAME SEMI - RAPID".
16.1 A game semi - rapid is a game where all moves have to be played in a time limited between 15 and 60 minutes.
16.2 The game has to unfold accordingly to Rules of the Game of the FIDE, safe when they are in contradiction with next rules.
16.3 Players are not obliged to note moves.
16.4 No complaint can be deposited to purpose of the incorrect placement of a piece, the orientation of the chessboard or the adjustment of the pendulum, if at least three moves have been executed by each of players.
16.5 The arbiter will make apply Articles 4 and 10 of Rules of the Game, only if one or the two players ask it it.
16.6 One considers that the flag has fallen when a complaint some haveed forms has been bishope to this subject by a player. The arbiter will abstain to signal the fall of a flag.
16.7 To request a gain to the time, the caller has to stop the two pendulums and to warn the arbiter. Demand will be receivable if its flag has remained lifted and that its adversary fallen after the stop of pendulums.
16.8 If the two flags have fallen, the game is null.

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ARTICLE 17. ANNEX C. "THE BLITZ".
17.1 A game of blitz is a game where all moves have to be executed in a time limited inferior to 15 minutes.
17.2 The game has to unfold accordingly to Rules of the Game Semi - rapid described in annex B, safe when they are in contradiction with next Rules.
17.3 An illegal move is accomplished when the pendulum of the adversary has been put in step. The adversary is then authorized to ask the gain, but before to undertake its clean move. If the former is executed, the illegal move can no longer be corrected.
17.4 To earn, a player has to have the "means to check-mate". That implies to have a equipment sufficing to, in the end, arrive legally to a position, possibly with the assistance of the adversary, the former to the line being able not to avoid to be bishop check-mate to the move following. Thus, two knights and a king are insufficient against an alone king, on the other hand a roque suffices against a knignt.
17.5 The Article 10.2 of Rules of the game does not apply.

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ARTICLE 18. ANNEX D. " PURPOSES OF GAME K.O, when no arbitration is policyholder".
18.1 When games are played according to the Article 10, a player can request the nullity when it has less two minutes to its pendulum, and before its flag does not falls otherwise this put an end to the game.
It can make cost the fact that:
a) its adversary can not earn by normal means, or
b) its adversary makes no effort to earn by normal means.
Some a), the player has to note the final position and its adversary to verify it.
In b), the player has to note the final position and to present a leaf of game to day, that has ête completed before the end of the game. The adversary will verify both the leaf of game and the position final.
The complaint will be submitted to a foreign arbiter to this competition, whose decision will be without call.

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ARTICLE 19. ANNEX E. "THE ALGEBRAIC NOTATION".
The FIDE does not recognize for its castlenaments and for its matches that an alone system, the notation algebraic, and recommends equally the utilization of this system in books of chess and in the press échiquéènne. Leaves of games using an other system that the algebraic notation not can be used as proof in cases where these leaves are normally used. A arbiter that notices that a player uses an other system of notation that the algebraic system will have to warn the player of this obligation.
19.1 Each piece is designated by the first letter ( capital letter) of its name. Example : R = king (or R in French), Q=queen (or D in French), R=roque (or T in French), B=bishop (or F in French), N=knignt (or C in French).
19.2 For the first letter of the name of the piece, each country has the right to use the first letter of the name used in its country. Examples: B=bishop ( the bishop in English), L=loper (the bishop in Dutch). In the press, the utilization of drawings for pieces is recommended.
19.3 Pawns are not designated by their first letter, but on the contrary, recognize by the absence of the former; example: e5, d4, a5.
19.4 8 columns (of left to straight for Whites and right to left for Blacks) are designated by tiny letters a,b,c,d,e,f, g and h, respectively.
19.5 8 cross (the low upwards for Whites and the high downward for Blacks) are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , respectively . Consequently, to the degameure, pieces and the white pawns are placed on the first and second cross; pawns and black pieces are placed on the seventh and the eighth cross.
19.6 Continuation to preceding rules, each of 64 squares is always noticed by the unique combination of a letter and a number.
8: a8 b8 ç8 d8 e8 f8 g8 h8
7: a7 b7 ç7 d7 e7 f7 g7 h7
6: a6 b6 ç6 d6 e6 f6 g6 h6
5: a5 b5 ç5 d5 e5 f5 g5 h5
4: a4 b4 ç4 d4 e4 f4 g4 h4
3: a3 b3 ç3 d3 e3 f3 g3 h3
2: a2 b2 ç2 d2 e2 f2 g2 h2
1: a1 b1 ç1 d1 e1 f1 g1 h1
---a--b--ç--d--e--f --g--h

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The English text constitutes the original Rule version of the game of Chess, such that it has been adopted by 67ème Congress of the FIDE of 1996, and coming into effect as soon as all players of all competition will have been able to be informed of modifications, to the most late 1st July 1997.
[Return to the library] Last modification undertaken Sunday 10 November 1997

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