Chess

[Randall Bart <barticus@att.net>]

'Twas 00:01 -0500 on Thursday 1/3/2002 when pbmserv-users-owner@gamerz.net 
wrote:
>From: mikhaelric@yahoo.com

>i received more responses which attempted to correct my previous statement 
>that the chess we play was not the same 500 years ago.
>
>(If you REALLY wish to be technical, chess is not the same as it was 5 
>years ago, for the chess laws are constantly being amended and changed.)

The last serious change in the rules of Chess occurred in the 1930s, and 
that was just clarifying a rule to clearly state what most people had 
always thought.

It seems that someone promoted a pawn to a rook on the king file.  On the 
next move he castled toward that rook.  The tournament director allowed it, 
on the grounds that the new rook had never moved.  The rule was changed the 
next year to say that you can only castle toward the two rooks that start 
the game.

I think the only rule changes since then have to do with time clocks and 
touch move.  Nothing that you would see when you read the game moves after 
the fact.
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