In serious play, if a player having the move touches one of their pieces as if having the intention of moving it, then the player must move it if it can be legally moved. So long as the hand has not left the piece on a new square, the latter can be placed on any accessible square. If a player touches one of the opponent’s pieces then he or she must capture that piece if it can be captured. If none of the touched pieces can be moved or captured there is no penalty.
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Quotes of the Day
FIDE is now a political organization. And being a political organization, it, of course, means that people in FIDE have some other interests – that is, to sit in their positions for the next hundred years.
Silvio Danailov 2016
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.
Boris Spassky 1995
No player, however strong, no member, however large, shall stand above FIDE
Florencio Campomanes
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”
Marcel Duchamp
Ten years ago I said that 2010 would be the end, chess would be exhausted. But it is not true, chess will not die so quickly.
Vishy Anand 2008
