Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 06:42:34 12/13/04
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On December 13, 2004 at 09:06:08, Peter Skinner wrote: >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 If you calculate with a maximum of 80 moves (which should be sufficient for almost all games) the maximum time that a game could take for the different time controls is: 45+10: 1h55 50+3: 1h48 60+5: 2h13 So in the calculation above there is no need to include additional time for pairing when using the 2h and 2h30 per round. If we're talking about the schedule: Last year was the following schedule used: round 1 9am round 2 11am round 3 2pm round 4 4pm round 5 6pm, ending before 8pm repeating the times of round 1-4 the next day as round 6-9 It had a 1 hour break between round 2 and 3 (dinner time in Europe) When skipping this break, the schedule could look like this for 60+5: round 1 9 am round 2 11.30 am round 3 2 pm round 4 4.30 pm round 5 7 pm, ending before 9.15 pm repeating the times of round 1-4 the next day as round 6-9 The drawback of these long days is: - no break to have a proper meal - longer day, but only slightly more than an hour longer (at the expense of the break). I wouldn't mind playing 60+5 (the longer the better), but only if the break is skipped. It would be taking too long otherwise. Richard.
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