Author: Will Singleton
Date: 17:03:14 09/06/00
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On September 06, 2000 at 19:27:45, Peter McKenzie wrote: >On September 06, 2000 at 17:05:53, Will Singleton wrote: > >>Ok, after all the discussion, we are left with November 4-5 or September 30-Oct >>1. I have a conflict Nov 12, and if we push things back further than that we >>have to resubmit the dates to everyone, then more potential conflicts may arise. >> Might end up into next year. >> >>So I've cleared the dates with Sjlim, and November 4-5 seems like the best. I >>am very sorry that we could not accommodate everyone. Now, if I've had a brain >>fart and everyone really wants to play Sept 30-Oct 1, I'm sure you'll let me >>know. >> >>Time-control is 30 10, eight round swiss. > >Firstly, thanks Will for doing all this work. I think 4-5 Nov is as good a date >as you'll get. > >I'm really keen on nine rounds, what does everyone else think? > >I figure that I'm going to have to pretty much sacrifice that weekend anyway, so >may as well get in as many games as is reasonably possible. > >Lets consider how long a 30 10 game takes. Assume 60 moves, so we have 60 >minutes + (120*10)sec = 80 minutes > >Also, with decent seedings the first rounds tend to take much less time. > My games averaged 65 moves, with a range of 26-102. Assume that in each round, at least one game will go past 90 moves. So, you should really use 90 moves as the round delimiter, which gives 90 minutes. With potential disconnections and other delays, I think 2 hours would be the minimum planned time between rounds. The other thing is that we already have a 6am start time for some folks, and a midnight end for others. I just can't see asking to stretch that even more. Will
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