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GM Susan Polgar announced today that she will be working with ICC’s World Chess Live to provide video chess instruction for players under 2200.  There will be beginner, intermediate and advanced lessons once a week.

She will also provide important information for chess coaches, parents and teachers on how to introduce chess to students and new programs.

GM Polgar confirms the rumor of a global chess tv channel in the works.  We are following that idea closely.

Source: Chessvine.com Polgar Blog

We have selected our first chess coach for review and promotion on the site. NM Rene Phillips. Mr. Phillips hails from New Orleans but is currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mr. Phillips teaches chess to students of all age groups. Mr. Phillips also does game analysis in video format. Please find below one of his video games from last year. You will not he is full of energy and very entertaining. Also, click the Chess Coaches link at the top of the page to find his contact information.

In this video NM Rene Phillips plays another chess coach. Enjoy the entertaining banter.

The touch-move rule requires that a player who touches a piece must move it. The rule is used for all serious competitions and applies only to the player who is on move. The player who is not on move may touch pieces, although this is considered bad form; a Tournament Director may penalize a player who is touching pieces to annoy or distract the opponent.

A similar rule requires that a player who releases a piece after making a legal move is considered to have made that move. A player who moves a piece to a square without releasing the piece is entitled to move that piece to a different square.

There is no penalty for a player who touches a piece which has no legal moves. At one time, the rules required the player to move the King, but this rule is obsolete.

A player who touches an opponent’s piece is required to capture it, if possible. Castling is considered a King move, and a player should touch the King before the Rook.

I started to panic when, on his second turn, Kevin Rogers moved his knight to C4. He moved the piece with a speed and certainty that — whether he knew it or not — telegraphed a clear message.

I play this game fast. I make quick decisions. I make these decisions quickly because I made them two moves ago while you were sitting across the table fumbling with your pawn like the tubby imbecile you clearly are.

Early in the game, I remember staring at Kevin’s gold trophies near the chess board, reading the “1ST PLACE KINDERGARTEN” label on one of them and feeling vaguely nauseous. I was still focused on my pawns, and Kevin was hopscotching knights and bishops across the board like he was H. Norman Schwarzkopf.

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1. No one point in these rules can be considered independently from other points which pertain to the same issue; they must all be taken into consideration when deciding a dispute.
2. All of the rules of the game of chess apply to speed chess, unless specifically overridden or modified by any point in this list of rules. (more…)