Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 11:05:11 09/07/02
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On September 07, 2002 at 11:40:36, Alastair Scott wrote:
>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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That might solve your adjudication problem, but it makes the game "superficial".
I doubt very much with a 30 min. per game that you are going to see great chess!
There might be some good moves early in the game but the moves will start to
become more and more superficial as the game progresses nearer to the end!
Regards,
Terry
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