Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 05:33:24 04/05/00
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On April 05, 2000 at 08:27:10, blass uri wrote: >On April 05, 2000 at 07:30:37, Steve Coladonato wrote: > >>On April 04, 2000 at 23:22:05, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>My opinion about the 50 move rule is that is should be discontinued in games >>>which have a sudden death time control. There seems to be no reason for a move >>>limit when there is already a time limit. Since a game cannot last "forever" as >>>in years past why should there be a 50 move rule? >>>Other opinions? >>>Jim Walker >> >>Most games that have a sudden death time control also have a delay setting. > >I think that you are wrong at least for tournaments in Israel and I am not sure >if you are right about most of the games in other countries. > >Most of my tournament games have no delay setting. >Most of them are 90 minutes/30 moves+1 hour/rest of the game or 120 minutes/40 >moves+1 hour/rest of the game. > >Today there are no postponed games like in the past and I guess that in 90% of >the tournaments there is no fisher time control but only time control that is >similiar to most of my tournament games. > >Uri I guess the delay setting is not universal. However, USCF tournaments that have a sudden death time control also provide for the delay. Steve
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