I'd have to check the official rules to be sure, but as far as I'm aware, you are allowed to write the time on the clock as well as the moves.

Well done, Shang!

Edit: now that I think about it. The move tracking on paper, what is that used for and by who?

Digital clocks are preferred, especially in a lot of tournaments now since they have increment and/or delay, which you can't do on an analog clock. As for the set, usually any one is fine, although if you have some sort of obscure set and it bothered your opponent enough, they could probably ask for it to be replaced, but I'd have to check the rules to be sure on that one.

I think if you touch one of your own pieces you have to move it, and if you touch one of your opponents pieces you have to capture it.

@@chesslegend4005 that is a GENERAL rule. What happens if you touch your chess piece and there are no legal moves for that chess piece? Then this rule is obsolete. Traditionally if you touch a chess piece it means you intend to do something with it, capture or move it. But at times you simply want to adjust its placement, center it on its own square, and in this case you will announce your intention to touch that piece to center it by saying j'adoube! French for “I Adjust” then your opponent will know your intentions. I was playing a game with a complicated position in a tournament, and my opponent moved MY knight! I was surprised and I stoped the clock and raised my hand. The Tournament Director (TD one of many people helping adjudicate on the board problems came to the board and I explained to him what had happened. Technically my opponent would have been sanctioned, by losing some time of their clock or forfeit the game. Both of us acknowledged the complexities in the position and both with the help of the TD decided that no penalty should be assessed and the game continued and I was victorious. The deep thinking process sometimes can play tricks on you and my opponent was thinking about what my knight could do, and moved it as if it was his. One thing I want to add, is that you MUST turn off your cellphone. Can you imagine 100s of cell phones ringing in the playing hall! So NM Lopez gave a list of what to bring, I will say this one item should be left outside the playing hall.

No it doesn't. You'll have a provisional rating at first and after your first several games it will calibrate and eventually you'll end up with your official OTB rating.

@@ChessVibesOfficial Thanks

Not really, although if it's really obscure and your opponent complains you might have to swap it out for something more normal. But I've seen people playing on rather odd looking sets without problems.

Thank you for answering ❤♟

😂 that's a great question - I don't know!

They will let the GM enter the tournament for free without paying the entry, but if they win a prize, they'll then deduct the entry from the prize(in that case they'll deduct $100.)

Some tournaments have 1500 players, can you imagine supplying all these boards and clocks, and keeping track of them so they don’t “walk” away? Any serious chess player will have his or her own chess set, favorite pieces, favorite board, favorite clock, I still have an analog clock and I like to see how young chess players look at it and try and set it up?! Hilarious! No buttons! Plus you also need the snacks and water bottle, so…

I typically go up to my hotel room after a game, so I have my own bathroom there. But you do make a good point. Chess has been male dominated for so long, we forget these little details.

I second this, and expand it to all restrooms. Even an excellently run conference at a top event center by one of the richest corporations in the world had absolutely disgusting restrooms. I can speak only for the men's, but this was at both the Moscone Center and San Jose Event Center, for the World Wide Developers Conference, hosted by Apple.