Author: Will Singleton
Date: 09:15:44 11/24/04
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On November 24, 2004 at 09:37:21, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On November 24, 2004 at 09:04:11, James Swafford wrote: > >>I've seen a couple of attempts to get some discussion started about >>CCT, but AFAIK nothing's on the books yet. >> >>Anthony- did you ever get up with Volker? He's fantastic at >>organizing these things; I hope he's willing to do it again. >> >>Was a date /format ever decided on? I'd like to play again this >>year, but that depends on the date (I can't play the weekend of >>the Jan 22nd/23rd). Of course, majority rules... >> >>I think a lot of folks will want to start lobbying for their >>favorite time control, but maybe we can start by agreeing on when >>we can play: >> >>1. If you are interested in playing, what weekend(s) would >> work for you (or wouldn't work for you) in the Jan/Feb >> time frame? >> >>2. What are your thoughts on stretching the event out over >> two weekends? Would you be less likely or unable to play? >> >>-- >>James > >I just got Volker's email from Ralf, and sent him an email not 5 minutes ago. I >agree he did an excellent job last year. Anything in January _or_ February is >fine with me; I have no social life worth talking about ;) > >I'd like to propse 60 2 as the timecontrol for CCT. The problem with a large >increment is that since we are playing with computers, there will always be *at >least one* game that goes out to 150 moves. So a 10 second increment will give >the average game 60*10 = 10 minutes, while delaying the tournament 150*10 = 25 >minutes. Therefore, I think keeping the increment small is a good idea, and if >you screw up your time allocation, that is your problem. At 60 2, we can pretty >much guarantee all games will be finished in 60 + 60 + 4*150/60 = 2:10, which is >about right IMO. > >I'd also like to point out (again) that I don't like tiebreak blitz games. :) > >anthony With a 60 2 time control, you might get more than tiebreak blitz games. :) 45 10, with 9 rounds over one weekend, seems to have worked well for the last two events. CCT4 had 2 weekends at 60 10. 2 weekends makes it tough for some folks to participate, and I think we ought to try to continue to make it as accessible as we can. So I would vote for keeping the same format as last year. Late January or early Feb is fine. Will
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