![]() How about this, writing the move down before making it is note taking. ![]() Now in order to do this, we need to come up with a reason as to why Blumenfeld’s Rule should be eliminated. So what is a company to do? That is easy: try to eliminate Blumenfeld’s Rule from tournament play. What is the major obstacle toward getting the greatest number of chess players to purchase such a device (besides the price!)?…Blumenfeld’s Rule. Because the MonRoi would reject illegal moves and the player would get to see a future position by “writing” his move down first on the MonRoi, players using a MonRoi are required to make the move on the board first, before entering it into the device. The MonRoi is an expensive chess-recording device where the player uses a stylus to trace out the move. I have no problem with that, it is what America and the free enterprise system is all about. What is the primary purpose of the Canadian company that produces MonRois? To sell MonRois and make a profit. Now I have no problems with technological advances, but I do have a BIG problem when technology actually influences changes in the rules of chess. What type of parent wouldn’t want their kid to learn to read and write with good penmanship and instead would give them a machine to do it for them? My first thought at the TD meeting was, “Why would a parent buy one of these for a kid instead of having the child learn the very basic algebraic notation language of reading and writing chess?” Every chess player has a home computer, and many spend countless hours in front of it on a daily basis.Įnter the MonRoi. Remember back in the days of manual typewriters when you had to do special “pinky curls” at the gym to try to gain enough strength to type an “a” or a “ ” on the keyboard? For us old-timers, chess notation used to be a little more complicated…we used the old Descriptive notation where you had to flip-flop back and forth.įlash forward again to 2006. Today it is hard to imagine the world before the computer. The personal computer becomes the most influential invention in society since the automobile and the television set. (In my own personal experience, I have had two masters walk into a mate in one, with plenty of time on their clock.)įlash forward to the 1990’s. If it is useful for them, it is even more useful for us mere mortals. ![]() Kotov claimed that the great majority of the world’s best players use Blumenfeld’s Rule. Think of all the games you have ever lost…I would guess that over half of them were fairly obvious blunders in hindsight. This simple blunder check will save you countless games. Then double-check it for obvious mistakes…Are any of your pieces en prise? Is there a mate in one or two? Is there anything obvious that you have missed in your deep analysis? The purpose of Blumenfeld’s Rule is to tear yourself away from the distant future of the position you just analyzed and look at the board again through fresh eyes. Paraphrased, Blumenfeld’s Rule says that after you have considered all the candidate moves and gone along all the branches of the analysis tree, write the move down on your score sheet before playing it and hide it under your pen so that your opponent can’t see it. Kotov suggests what I believe is the most important piece of practical advice given to the tournament chess player…Blumenfeld’s Rule. One of the classic instructional chess books of all time, Kotov’s Think Like a Grandmaster, was published. Closing in on midnight on May 11 at the Colorado Convention at the Tournament Directors meeting for the 2006 Elementary School Nationals, I leaned over and whispered to Mary Nelson, “What is this MonRoi thing that they are talking about?”įor a humorous description of this rather expensive and unnecessary device, see the Opinion column written by Randy Reynolds in the October 2006 CCI.įlash back to 1978.
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