Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 05:54:05 08/10/98
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On August 10, 1998 at 07:30:50, William Dozier wrote: >Good/Day everyone: Perhaps im behind the times concerning the gme of chess. I >thought the name of the game was to check/mate the king. So how can a five or >ten min game determin who won the game, when the time has ran out and there is >no check/mate, you mean to tell me that the time has taken the check/mate rule. >Unless the game is determin at the end of the five or ten min/game who may have >had the upper/hand or winning position. Most people who play Blitz, cant win at >longer time controls, because they depend on the clock to do it for them or the >time. There has never been a war that was won in five to ten Min. And the game >of chess my frinds is a game of war, and the king must be check/mated. So in my >humble opion any Blitz game is not a chess game, in most cases the king has not >been check/mated or there is no draw, stalemate etc, you guys know the rules. So >the Blitz games have been added, and are not really part of the chess rules. This could also be an argument against the clock in games that are slower than blitz. The clock was added to keep people from thinking all day. You can't sit there for three hours when you have two hours on the clock, your opponent will call your flag, and didn't actually mate your king. And yes, you might have had a better position at the time. Same thing with blitz. If you want to play blitz, the clock is sitting here there in front of you, it is quite visible, the amount of time on it is quite visible, and if you forget about it or use too much time, you'll lose, even if the extra time you used allowed you to get a winning position. The clock is part of the game, just like the queen-side. You can't say that you were winning just because you had a good king-side attack, but your opponent unfairly avoided it by destroying your queen-side. Same thing with the clock, you have to win on the board and on the clock, or you lose. bruce
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