Judit Polgar he still doesn’t know how he should have acted the day he Garry Kasparov cheated on him Linares, back in 1994. The Russian released a knight on the wrong square for a fraction of a second, which would have led to certain defeat, but his instincts led him to grab the piece again and move it to a safer place. He deceived everyone with the skill of a magician, as demonstrated days later by a video that he had recorded those moments. The God’s hand passed de Maradona and Kasparovfrom Mexico to Jaen.
“It was very risky to protest, because I I didn’t know it was recorded“, recently confessed the youngest of the Polgar sisters, who believes that despite everything it was an unconscious act of her rival, something that Diego Armando could never allege. The situation is not too frequent on the boards either, although any chess player can tell a similar anecdote about rivals who touched a piece and, in the absence of witnesses, then refused to move it, as required by the regulations.
To avoid such cases and other controversies, FIDE has just announced, on the eve of the Women’s World Cup, that it will implement the video arbitration. The VAR has just been released in the West Asian Junior Championshipwhich takes place in Kyrgyzstan.
The platform idChess has been chosen to help chess referees for the first time, who will be able to review the most uncertain moments of the game, as occurs in other sports. The VAR of chess is not very different from those we already know. As in tennis, players will be able to complain if they believe a breach has occurred, which would have helped thumb almost 30 years ago.
In those cases, the referee can go to the application and review the recording to see if something irregular has happened or if one of the chess players has not respected the regulations. At the very least, your final decision will be no worse than without the use of the new tool. FIDE believes that “decision making It will be more simple and transparentboth for the referees and for the players”.