Tim Just
National Tournament Director Tim Just offers a few rules of thumb that are easier to recall if you get caught in the labyrinth of an adjournment.
The Queens Gambit on Netflix has done a lot for promoting our beloved royal sport. The show has also triggered a flood of nostalgia.
Entering chess tournaments is a lot like those pop-up screens that bring our computers and smartphone activities to a… Read More »
COVID-19 has turned the face of the OTB chess universe upside down. NTD Tim Just checks in on some of the situations that will need adjustments.
It seems strange to call that row of zeros on a digital chess clock a “flag fall.” The term is left over from the days when analog clocks were the… Read More »
The world chess organization recently published its own set of online chess rules, including new rules for Hybrid Chess competitions.
So-called “unfair advantages” in chess wear many costumes but, in the end, it is still a protest about those alleged advantages.
The marriage of over-the-board (OTB) wood pushing with the online universe produced a whole new set of unforeseen concerns—or unintended consequences.
Has anyone considered hiring bad guys to catch the chess cheaters?
The way we take notation and the way we set clocks are two prime examples of rulebook U-Turns: rules that have gone through a 180… Read More »