Author: Kolss
Date: 06:41:53 12/13/04
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On December 13, 2004 at 09:06:08, Peter Skinner wrote: Hi, My personal vote goes to 50+3 - I really would like to see rounds finish within 2 hours. Considering the world-wide distribution of participants, with 11.x hours a day, some people will have to get up very early anyway, and some will have to stay up until very late. Don't make it worse than "necessary". I consider the gain in game quality when going from 50 (60) to 60 (70) minutes negligible. This event is a speed chess event at any rate, not a tournament time control event, no need to pretend. Just my opinion, FWIW... Best regards - Munjong. >Hello everyone, > >There has been much disussion here and via email regarding the time control >decided on. > >In the 50 or so emails I recieved over night, I would say about 60% of the >people would like to see the time control changed to 60 + 5 which would push the >rounds to about 2.5 hours making the first day about 12.5 hours long not >including small gaps for pairings. > >At the current schedule that I have set out this is what each day (is hopefully) >would be: > >Saturday: > >5 rounds x 2 hours = 10 hours + 5 x 15 mins (for pairing) = 11.25 hours. > >Sunday: > >4 round x 2 hours = 8 hours + 4 x 15 mins (for pairing) = 9.25 hours. > >With changing the time control to 60 + 5 we get: > >Saturday: > >5 rounds x 2.5 hours = 12.5 hours + 1.25 hours for pairing = 13.75 hours > >Sunday: > >4 rounds x 2.5 hours = 10 hours + 1.25 hours for pairing = 11.25 hours. > >With people joining before the tournament you are looking to be online for more >than 14 hours the first day, which makes for a very long day. > >I will leave it up to the people here. It is afterall your tournament and the >_majority_ will rule. > >Please let's decide now, rather than have people maybe not attend due to it, or >complain on game day about games being more "blitz" than usual. > >Peter
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