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12 Draw and Combined Hand Ranks. 5.2. For me personally: I don't consider scratch boards cheating/unfair/unethical in online live chess/chess960, even though chess.com doesn't allow it, but I don't use scratch boards. (They of course have no advantage in bullet/blitz games, but I don't and wouldn't use even in higher time controls.) I mean, I rarely think of someone as cheating in chess/chess960, but if ever I did, I'd hardly think that they were using a scratch board. I believe I would think the same in poker(/choker) for poker calculators. In terms of ethics surrounding calculators, I think it is unethical to use something that gives you information that other players would not be able to obtain themselves (without the calculator). Eg, if your calculator gives the odds of winning with knowledge of the other players hand, that would be unethical. If your calculator gives you the percentage of winning based on your hand and the information you have alone, that is ethical. Experienced players could calculate this in their head or come up with rules based on math to find out very easily. |