Rules presentation slides

Many thanks to Alex Holowczak for last night’s excellent presentation and teaching at Mercia. He has kindly supplied a copy of the slides (without the movies) which can be seen in pdf here. The movies of the example illegal moves can also be re-seen from youtube as listed below.

1. Paris GCT: Nakamura v Topalov, Blitz pawn promotion blunder link here
2. Baku 2015 Nepomniachtchi vs Nakamura – castling with both hands link here
3. Canadian Championship Playoff. July 2017. Sambruev v Noritsyn. Queen in opponent’s hand link here
4. St.Louis Nakamura vs Caruana hitting clock before promoting to queen link here