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Subject: Re: New FIDE Time Limit

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:54:57 12/18/00

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On December 18, 2000 at 20:18:49, Walter Koroljow wrote:

>It seems FIDE decided that the time limit, effective 1 January, is 1 hour and 20
>minutes for 40 moves and 20 Minutes + 30 sec./move thereafter.  This was decided
>December 16th.
>
>My opinion: this is not chess.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Walter
>
>P.S.  I will post this on the general forum also.

Eventually, all chess games will be blitz, and everyone will eat Spam[1]
sandwitches for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  It will be so good, we'll write
poetry about it[2], some of which will be so bad it's not worth mentioning[3].


[1]
http://www.spam.com/

[2]
http://pemtropics.mit.edu/~jcho/spam/

[3]
http://pemtropics.mit.edu/cgi-bin/search-ku.pl?search=dcorbit&what=both&limit=100



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