Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 08:40:36 09/07/02
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On September 07, 2002 at 01:08:08, Terry Ripple wrote: >It's too bad that even our World Chess Events are going to faster and faster >time controls, but why is this? Is it a combination of a faster paced society >that is always in a rush to go from point A to point B and/or has no patience >like our past generations had? Does anyone have a good explanation for this? Because they're fairer; there only ever has been a finite time for playing games after work, for example, and quite a lot of the 'solutions' to this were grossly flawed. I remember playing in chess leagues, even 10 years ago, where the time control was 40 moves in two hours and then adjudication. Adjudication is a dreadful idea because: i. it means that players get very little endgame practice; ii. it encouraged the player with an advantage to sit on their position; iii. quite often it seemed the adjudicated result was drawn from a hat in any case. 40 moves in an hour and a half then the clocks back 15 minutes and a blitz finish is much more like it :) I also like the 30 minute per game tournaments, another time control which didn't exist 20 years ago; six rounds can comfortably be played in a day.
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