A touch piece is a coin or medal believed to cure disease, bring good luck, influence people's behaviour, carry out a specific practical action, etc. What most touch pieces have in common is that they have to be touched or in close physical contact for the 'power' concerned to be obtained and/or transferred.

Feb 22, 2015 · The touch move rule is the most basic rule of tournament chess. Even people who don't play chess at all know that when a chess player intentionally touches one of his pieces, he must make a move with this piece (of course if such a legal move exists).

The touch-move rule in chess specifies that a player, having the move, who deliberately touches a piece [a] on the board must move or capture that piece if it is legal to do so. If it is the player's piece that was touched, it must be moved if the piece has a legal move.

The touch move rule in chess states that if a player deliberately touches a piece, they must move it (as long as a legal move is available). This means that a player can't touch a piece, release it on its original square, and play a move with another piece.

A player may not touch pieces during an opponent’s turn. When a piece is released on a square, as a legal move or part of a legal move, it cannot be moved to another square as part of that move. Every chess piece knows the touch-move rule.

THE SOVEREIGN REMEDY: TOUCH-PIECES AND THE KING'S1 EVIL NOEL WOOLF THE study of Touch-Pieces forms a very small corner of numismatics. Excluding die variations there are a bare dozen types known; and of these one is known only by two examples. The basic research was done more than half a century ago: in England

Chess players touch the pieces to adjust them and make sure that they are in their correct position. Touching the pieces makes them relax and helps to focus more on the game. As per the standard rules, before adjusting the pieces the player has to say “j’adoube” or “I adjust”.

Here are the basics of touch move: If you touch a piece you have to move it if you can. If you touch an opponents piece you have to take it if you can. If you let your hand off a piece the move is over.

The Touch-Move rule states that during a tournament or competition, if a player touches a piece with his/her hands in a way that indicates they want to make a move, then no matter what happens, they must move that piece.

The meaning of TOUCHPIECE is a coin (as an angel) or medal given by various English sovereigns as late as Queen Anne to persons touched by them for the cure of the king's evil.