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(Nick) wrote:

The Horny Goat wrote in message
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On 18 Jun 2003 19:31:40 -0700, (Nick) wrote:
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On the other hand, from what I have heard, sometimes one person here at
RGCM,
evidently playing outside the United States, has brought up a question
about
one's local tournament regulations, and then someone else here has
responded
by citing the USCF rulebook. :-)

Well if they're asking about LOCAL tournament regulations citing the USCF
handbook is not out of line. However if you're asking about the laws of
Chess it should be noted that most major countries have their own handbooks
which are based more closely or more distantly from the FIDE Handbook....

As far as I can recall hearing, someone (presumably an American) wrote a
response, citing the USCF handbook as the authority on the matter, to a
question about "the laws of chess" as played somewhere outside the United
States. That response was well-meaning but not particularly helpful.



IIRC, this thread started with a discussion of an incident in
Pennsylvania, someone followed up by talking about the West Coast, and
someone else called the second person an idiot because lots of countries
have west coasts (when in context it obviously referred to the West
Coast of the U.S.) and that Americans were idiots because out that
(obviously, I'm paraphrasing).

Anyway, too much has been snipped here for me to know if that's relevant
to the USCF vs. Laws of Chess argument here, but it's possible citing
the USCF rules was relevant in context.

--Harold Buck


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