Arbiter Rulings: Rnd 2, Sevillano-Lawton A situation arose towards the end of the Sevillano-Lawton game in that Lawton was no longer keeping his scoresheet up to date and had more than 5 minutes remaining on his clock. Article 8.1: “In the course of play each player is required to record ... Read More

A chess opening is the group of initial moves of a chess game. Recognized sequences of opening moves are referred to as openings as intiated by white or defenses, as created on reply to black. There are many dozens of different openings, and hundreds of named variants. ... Read More