Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 20:33:20 05/05/00
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On May 05, 2000 at 22:13:21, Brian Richardson wrote: >Shortly after the very sucessful Winter tournament there was some informal >discussion about a summer tournament (before the August one). I would certainly >like to have another one. My only request is some consideration of slightly >shorter time controls (perhaps 45 10--that would save up to 1 hour per game). I think we should have a 'summer' (winter downunder) blitz tournament, so that we can fit the whole thing into 1 day. The format I would prefer is 8-10 round swiss, 2 games per round (2 vs the same opponent), time control something like 5 minutes each plus 3 seconds increment. There is nothing magic about the 5 3 time control, but I think some small increment is best to avoid long games deteriating into mad time scrambles. Increment is also essential for anyone without timestamp or anyone crazy enough to play manually. A one day tournament has the advantage that more people are able to participate, its not too hard to play a tournament at weird hours if it is only a day long. There are two benefits of having 2 games vs each opponent: 1) makes it easy to get lots of games into a swiss tournament without having any weird pairing problems. 2) removes all colour allocation problems! No more moaning about getting too many blacks etc. 2 games of 5 3 per round means each round is over within about 30min. So 9 rounds is 4.5 hours total playing time, so the whole tournament should take about 6 hours which is quite managable I think. Anyone from ICC listening who can organise it? cheers, Peter
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