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Subject: Re: New FIDE Time Limit

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 21:42:58 12/18/00

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On December 18, 2000 at 23:21:30, Andy Serpa wrote:

>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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