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Summary: A must have for the tournament player
Review: I rate this book not because the book is "so wonderful", but because it is a must have for the tournament player. Every chess player in general should know the rules to chess. But the tournament player must know the rules and procedures of a tournament. Such rules as "touch move" are all explained in detail in this book. The book contains the explaination of the use of chess notation, the correct chess equipment, player's rights and responsibilities, explaination of the USCF rating system, and a section called "Ten tips to Winning chess". If you are a tournament director, then this book is also a must have.
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Summary: Good for the tournament player
Review: If you are a tournament player you MUST own a copy of this book. It simply covers ALL of the most important rules you must know. Knowing the rules is a must!
I would suggest that the author(s)do a little better on making some of their explanations more clear.
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Summary: I've used this book as a tournament director
Review: The Official Rules of Chess is a carefully written book. While the actual rules of chess have changed very little over time, this is a COMPREHENSIVE book, and has all of the rules in existence mentioned and covered clearly. I have often used this book as a Tournament Director in the Santa-Monica-Bay-Chess-Club for two years, and NEVER found it to be unclear. While I might not have liked some of the rules, every TD has his own pet interpretation of the rules. The object is to make a decision that satisfies both players as often as possible, and this book helps the reader to do just that.
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Summary: Covers all of the rules
Review: The writers of the fifth edition, due out in three years or so, will have their hands full matching the quality of this fourth edition. It is twice as large as its predecessor, and includes details every tournament director has always wanted, but no previous author has dared include. For example, if a player promotes a pawn to an upside-down rook, it is considered a queen. There is an entire chapter on the well-run tournament, which even includes advice to use duct-tape to silence those noisy door latches in hotel tournament rooms. Please, future writers, follow this example! A new edition is necessary, largely because of some new technology in the area of digital chess clocks with a 5-second delay. Let's hope this topic can be treated as comprehensively in the next edition as everything else has been in the current one. It'll be a few years for the 5th edition, so go ahead and acquire this 4th edition if you are a tournament chess player or aspiring tournament director.
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Summary: Comprehensive-plus!
Review: The writers of the fifth edition, due out in three years or so, will have their hands full matching the quality of this fourth edition. It is twice as large as its predecessor, and includes details every tournament director has always wanted, but no previous author has dared include. For example, if a player promotes a pawn to an upside-down rook, it is considered a queen. There is an entire chapter on the well-run tournament, which even includes advice to use duct-tape to silence those noisy door latches in hotel tournament rooms. Please, future writers, follow this example! A new edition is necessary, largely because of some new technology in the area of digital chess clocks with a 5-second delay. Let's hope this topic can be treated as comprehensively in the next edition as everything else has been in the current one. It'll be a few years for the 5th edition, so go ahead and acquire this 4th edition if you are a tournament chess player or aspiring tournament director.
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Summary: An Absolute Must for any Serious Tournament Player
Review: To go into a tournament not knowing the rules would be a major handicap. This book provides every single detail on the rules (excluding updates which you would need to get from the US Ches Federation). This is the real OFFICIAL rules and needs to be taken as gospil. I just completed writing reviews on the CHESS FOR JUNIORS series and would recommend also getting WINNING CHESS TOURNAMENTS FOR JUNIORS as a suppliment (not the offial rule book, but it will greatly enlighten and explain these rules and what is most important in them much further).
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