Finger fault
Finger error is a term that comes from chess jargon (and may have been borrowed from musical language ). This is understood to mean the case that a player “touches a figure without actually wanting to”.
This piece must be moved according to the rules of the game "touched, guided!" Or if an opposing piece has been touched it must be captured. In the event of a motor mishap, i.e. accidentally touching or knocking over a figure, the rule does not apply. One then does not speak of a finger fault.
If a player "grabs" and z. B. instead of the planned move, if you pick up a piece on an adjacent square, you have a finger error. Diverse constellations are possible. In chess, many finger errors result from the fact that a player mixes up pre-calculated variants and makes moves in the wrong order. Particularly when there is not enough time , it can happen that the opponent's previous move is not correctly perceived and answered reflexively. This is why the psychological advice is often given that one should "sit on the hands" in order to avoid hasty moves. Chess players also occasionally use the term as an excuse to portray a defeat as unhappy or not to admit that it has been overlooked.
The expression is common as Germanism in the English language.
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Position after 12. Qf3 – g3 (before the finger mistake)
Bobby Fischer made a finger mistake in a game against Wolfgang Unzicker at the 1960 Buenos Aires tournament . In the position shown, Fischer touched his pawn on h7 and felt compelled to advance the pawn on the edge. Since 12.… h7 – h6 loses immediately because of 13. Bg5xh6, he was forced to move 12.… h7 – h5. After this finger mistake, however, his king position was irredeemably weakened and he lost the game in just 22 moves.
A special form of the finger mistake is a move wrongly made with the "correct" figure. This happened, for example, by Wassyl Ivanchuk against Gata Kamsky at the tournament in Tilburg in 1990. Ivanchuk, who played with the black pieces, had prepared the French defense in response to 1. e2 – e4 , but due to his nervousness he moved his pawn one square too far to e5 which resulted in the Spanish game . This finger mistake threw him so much that he quickly lost the game, although in this case no serious damage had actually occurred.
In this context, the so-called mouse-slip in internet chess should be mentioned. This is defined as the "unintentional letting go of a figure". The cause of the error is the clumsy operation of the input device , the "mouse". In such cases, there is often no discernible difference between a motor error and the finger error type.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Feustel : Small Blitzschess Breviary . Beyer, Hollfeld 1983, p. 72. ISBN 3-88805-006-5 .
- ^ A b Robert Byrne's chess column , in: New York Times , November 4, 1990
- ↑ See e.g. B. Djordje Vidanovic: "WinBoard Modularity, Engines and Chess Servers"