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In a blitz game, is it okay to begin making your move before your opponent stops her clock? The rules seem to be unclear.

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I don't know. Krush wrote an article, and it's posted over at chess life online. USCF posted its reply as well. I watched the video, but it was hard to draw a definitive conclusion. Their hands were moving in such a flurry I couldn't tell whether one player was "pre-moving" in any sense. Anyways, even if that's the case, I dunno if any rules were violated.

<Aside from that, I still dislike the idea of settling a classical chess championship with blitz game.>

Same here. It seems like an awful idea. I'm not sure if the better chessplayer wins or the player with the better reflexes.

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Exactly. We would be presented with an interesting problem if one of the players was physically handicapped, making it impossible to move quickly. Wouldn't blitz play then be a form of discrimination against handicapped people?>

I'd like to see organizers try to wrestle with what to do with a blind player in this kind of situation.

May a player say "adjust" or J'adoube" and then adjust an opponent's piece or is it appropriate to ask that the other player centre the piece?

In my kid's game his opponent adjusted my kid's piece to a different square than the one my kid thought it was on. My thought, without knowing the rules, was that it would be improper to touch another's pieces except for the purpose of capture.

Obviously this could only occur in a game where, as here, the players were not writing their moves.

Wow. That's an interesting point. I hadn't thought about that at all. I skimmed the rules but couldn't find anything about stuff like this.

If the player is slowly dribbling at midcourt, a quarter-step is travelling. If he's a visiting player, even thinking about taking a step is travelling.

If the player is going in for a High-Impact Jam Guaranteed To Bring The Crowd To Their Feet And Make Every Highlight Reel Until The Next High-Impact Jam, then travelling does not exist.

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