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If I began incorporating a dice roll to my game, would I be allowed to
bring in a couple six sided dice?
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Piter De Vries wrote:

If I began incorporating a dice roll to my game, would I be allowed to
bring in a couple six sided dice?

As your opponent, I would encourage it.

William Hyde
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William Hyde wrote:

Piter De Vries wrote:

If I began incorporating a dice roll to my game, would I be allowed to
bring in a couple six sided dice?

As your opponent, I would encourage it.

William Hyde

Maybe you are right. I'm finding two priorities that I need to work on,
both, and rolling dice was my first instinct. However it's pretty easy
to approximate such a dice roll. And since I just recognized the second priority I should focus on it even more than normal to get better at it
and bring it more into play.

I'd rather not reveal any more than that. I think I've already given
away too much of my game.
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Piter De Vries wrote:

William Hyde wrote:

Piter De Vries wrote:

If I began incorporating a dice roll to my game, would I be allowed
to bring in a couple six sided dice?

As your opponent, I would encourage it.

William Hyde

Maybe you are right.-a I'm finding two priorities that I need to work on, both, and rolling dice was my first instinct.-a However it's pretty easy
to approximate such a dice roll.-a And since I just recognized the second priority I should focus on it even more than normal to get better at it
and bring it more into play.

I'd rather not reveal any more than that.-a I think I've already given
away too much of my game.

There are various rules for chess with dice, or a die. But with both
players rolling, not one.

The version I've most often played numbers the different types of piece
from one to six. A die is rolled and you must move a piece of that type
if you can, if you cannot, roll again.


Thus in the opening position only rolls of 5 (knight) or 6 (pawn) apply.

In other versions of the game you lose your turn if the piece rolled
cannot move. This tends to reduce the skill in the game and I do not
favour it myself.

Some sources claim that this was how chess was originally played. I am
not convinced.

William Hyde
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On Tue, 13 May 2025 22:51:07 -0500, Piter De Vries
<horchata12839@gmail.com> wrote:

William Hyde wrote:

Piter De Vries wrote:

If I began incorporating a dice roll to my game, would I be allowed to
bring in a couple six sided dice?

As your opponent, I would encourage it.

William Hyde

Maybe you are right. I'm finding two priorities that I need to work on, >both, and rolling dice was my first instinct. However it's pretty easy
to approximate such a dice roll. And since I just recognized the second >priority I should focus on it even more than normal to get better at it
and bring it more into play.

I'd rather not reveal any more than that. I think I've already given
away too much of my game.

The serious answer is that no tournament director would complain about
two dice simply being placed at the side of the board but would
quickly intervene if it was disturbing your opponent or other players.

Same answer if you brought your trumpet to a game - as a director I'd
never intervene if it didn't create a safety risk or disturbed any
players in the room.

(I well remember the time when a president of the Chess Federation of
Canada was playing in a tournament I was directing - well assistant
actually - and during his game his lunch reacted badly and he lurched
from the board and raced to the mens' room where the entire tournament
heard him losing his lunch. It was an excellent venue but had poor
acoustics for a tournament...he and his opponent quickly agreed to a
draw - and in fairness while the game wasn't over, it did look drawish
even if he wasn't ill)
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The Horny Goat wrote:

On Tue, 13 May 2025 22:51:07 -0500, Piter De Vries
<horchata12839@gmail.com> wrote:

William Hyde wrote:

Piter De Vries wrote:

If I began incorporating a dice roll to my game, would I be allowed to >>>> bring in a couple six sided dice?

As your opponent, I would encourage it.

William Hyde

Maybe you are right. I'm finding two priorities that I need to work on,
both, and rolling dice was my first instinct. However it's pretty easy
to approximate such a dice roll. And since I just recognized the second
priority I should focus on it even more than normal to get better at it
and bring it more into play.

I'd rather not reveal any more than that. I think I've already given
away too much of my game.

The serious answer is that no tournament director would complain about
two dice simply being placed at the side of the board but would
quickly intervene if it was disturbing your opponent or other players.

Same answer if you brought your trumpet to a game - as a director I'd
never intervene if it didn't create a safety risk or disturbed any
players in the room.

Yes, but you are a sane director.

A director who used to post here disagreed with my decision to allow a
medical student to read medical texts while playing a game, as the USCF
manual does not allow a player to "Consult written material".

As a person who frequently studied math during tournament games, I have
little sympathy with this view. Reading on tensors or liver function
does not fit with the word "consult".

I might have cited the precedent of Dus-Khotmirsky, who beat Lasker in
the St Petersburg 1909 event while allegedly reading a Japanese
translation of "Also Sprach Zarathustra".

The medical student's opponent came far closer to a draw than anyone
would have expected, given the 550 point rating difference. I thought I
had played well in one of the games in which I studied while he was
thinking, but later analysis revealed that this was very much not so.
I'd missed a simple win in the opening.

Apparently old Dus was a better multi-tasker than we were.

William Hyde



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