Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 21:33:05 05/05/00
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On May 05, 2000 at 23:33:20, Peter McKenzie wrote: >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 Hi Peter, Your blitz tourney idea is fine, and I would participate, but I'll be sad if it means we won't play another slow time-control tourney until next February. Blitz is all we ever see on ICC. I can login right now, and play a dozen 5 3 games in a couple of hours. In short, if you want to play a bunch of blitz, you really don't need to organize a tournament. The other problem with blitz games is that I don't learn as much about how my program is playing. Trying to keep up with the tactical ideas in these games is hard enough at slow time controls. At blitz it's almost hopeless. Even worse, there's not enough time to watch any other games, which is half the fun for me. I'm not necessarily voting for 75 10 again. I'm in favor of switching between fast and slow time controls, but going all the way to 5 3 is a much bigger change than I had in mind. I'd even be happy at G/30, which would be easy enough to finish over a weekend, or even a single day if the number of rounds was limited. In fact, if blitz is what you're after, we should try to get ICC to organize a regular computer event every month (or more often). A while back, there was some discussion here about holding a tourney every Friday or Saturday night. My $0.02. --Peter
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