Stuff in chess that is pointless.
Stuff that in chess that is pointless. 1. Adjudications. Fortunately we have done away with adjudications and adjournment, the chess world's version of water torture. It is bad enough that classical games go on for hours, four five hours or however long they last, when a football match that generates millions of pounds in income only goes on for 90 minutes in total. Far worse that they once broke a chess game up into two or more parts and you'd have to come back and play on another day or evening to complete the game. Good riddance I'd say. 2. Post-mortems. Post-mortems are another thing of the past, relevant in the days before we could go back to our hotel rooms and check our phones and get a much better idea of what was going on in the game than our relatively weak by comparison, flesh and blood opponent could tell us. 3. Writing your moves down. Pretty much every chess game is online now, so why write our moves down at all? We don't for rapid play and blitz. R...