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Subject: Re: New FIDE Time Limit

Author: Andy Serpa

Date: 20:21:30 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.

How much affect will this really have?  Why do they have to have an "official"
time limit anyway?  Why can't each tournament decide what the time control is?
Will the Corus & Linares and other super-tournaments even use this time control?


Andy Serpa
chessmad@chessopolis.com
http://www.chessopolis.com



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