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EVANS ON CHESS. September 17, 1993. Copyright by GM Larry Evans.
(A revised past column while GM Evans is in London covering the
Kasparov-Short world championship match.)
SLIPS OF THE HAND
Think with your head, not with your hand. There's an ironclad rule that
when you touch a piece, you must move it. If your hand is still on the
piece you can change your mind about where to move it, but move it you
must.
If you want to adjust a piece by centering it on a square, you must first
say "J'adoube" ("I adjust"). This is basic chess etiquette.
When a famous grandmaster collided with a stranger on the street, he
murmured "J'adoube" by way of excuse. "Sir," sniffed the stranger, "you
know as well as I do that one is supposed to say J'adoube before making a
move -- not after!"
At the Sousse Interzonal in 1967, shocked spectators watched Yugoslav GM
Milan Matulovic lift a piece and put it back after discovering that moving
it would cost him the game. He stuttered "J'adoube" and moved another piece
instead, which is known as cheating. GM Istvan Bilek, his Hungarian
opponent, squawked but the referee did nothing because he didn't see the
incident. Bilek could have refused to play on, but he did and the game was
eventually drawn.
A few months later Matulovic got away with the same stunt against the same
opponent! Thenceforth his colleagues dubbed him Jaboubeovic.
Even without touching a piece, you can win or lose. For example, Jan Ehvest
nearly forfeited for sealing an illegal move at adjournment against Lubomir
Luboyevic during the World Cup in Rotterdam 1989.
After Luboyevic missed an easy draw by 39...Rc5 40 Rb7 Bf5 he was clearly
lost at adjournment on move 62 and resigned without bothering to show up on
the next day when play was resumed. That's when all the fun began.
Officials opened the envelope and found that Ehlvest by mistake wrote down
62 Rf2-a2?? (illegal) instead of sealing his intended 62 Rc7-h7 (if
62...Rxc5 63 Rh4 Kd5 64 Rh5 Kd6 65 Rxc5 wins). In his mind's eye he had
rotated the board!
This hallucination might have cost Ehlvest the game -- had his opponent not
already resigned! So his slip of the pen was erased by Luboyevic's slip of
the lip. Justice prevailed, however, since Luboyevic should have
surrendered long before adjournment.
All's well that ends well.
White: JAN EHLVEST Black: LUBOMIR LUBOYEVIC French Defense 1989 1 e4 e6 2
d4 d5 3 Nc3 Be7 4 Bd3 dxe4 5 Nxe4 Nf6 6 Mf3 Bd7 7 0-0 Nxe4 8 Bxe4 Bc6 9 Bd3
Nd7 10 Re1 0-0 11 Bf4 Bd6 12 Ne5 Nxe5 13 dxe5 Bc5 14 Qg4 Qd4 15 Qh4 h6 16
Rad1 g5 17 Bxg5 Qxf2 18 Qxf2 Bxf2 19 Kxf2 hxg5 20 b4 b5 21 Re3 a5 22 a3
axb4 23 axb4 Ea4 24 Rb1 Kg7 25 Rg3 f6 26 exf6 Kxf6 27 Ke3 Rh8 28 h3 Rh4 29
Rf1 Rf4 30 Rxf4 gxf4 31 Kxf4 Rxb4 32 Ke3 Bd5 33 Rg8 Kf7 34 Rc8 Bxg2 35 Rxc7
Kg8 36 Rh7 Bf1 37 Bg6 Rc4 38 h4 Bh3 39 Bd3 Rb4? 40 Rh5 Bf5 41 Bxf5 exf5 42
Rxf5 Rxh4 43 Rxb5 Kf7 44 Re5 Rc4 45 Kd3 Rc8 46 c3 Kf6 47 Re3 Rd8 48 Kc2 Kf7
49 Kb3 Rb8 50 Kc4 Rc8 51 Kb5 Rb8 52 Kc6 Rc8 53 Kd7 Rc4 54 Kd6 Rc8 55 Re7
Kf6 56 Rc7 Rd8 57 Kc6 Ke6 58 c4 Ke5 59 c5 Kd4 60 Kb7 Rd5 61 Kb6 Kc4. Black
resigned without waiting to see White's (illegal) sealed move.