The discussion was about tournament rules, not what you do at Christmas, where the FIDE rules have no jurisdiction. And even if they did, what are these "special rules"? I don't think that you made a serious attempt to engage with what I wrote but instead were intent on naysaying, so I won't comment further.
Of course there are. We don’t follow every rule in the FIDE handbook when I play at Christmas with my brother in law.
For example, I would bet that in 99% of home games, touch-move is not enforced.
> allowed under USCF rules
interesting, I didn’t know that.