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Subject: Re: Please sign the Internet petition against fIDE's new time controls

Author: Alvaro Polo

Date: 20:30:36 02/02/01

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On February 02, 2001 at 10:39:04, Vicente Fernández wrote:

>http://www.chesslines.com/petition/petitioninternational.html

I favor new time controls. Here's why.

I accept that some people might be interested in the pursuit of "truth".
Nevertheless, this "truth" in 120/40 is quite relative. As correspondence
players often point, standard chess does not allocate enough time to find the
true ressources of chess positions, and they see standard chess as insufficient.

But this is not the main reason why I favor shorter time controls. As a 1800
amateur I find chess much more pleasurable to watch live if I don't have to wait
half an hour for a move. It is really this simple, I enjoy much more to watch
shorter chess games, "truth" or "falsehood" notwhitstanding. This phaenomenom of
watching chess games live is quite new, and is possible thanks to internet. If I
had not the possibility of watching them live I probably would favor slower time
controls, and for that matter, why not making correspondance chess replace
standard chess (this last statement is only half serious)

Alvaro



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