Author: John Merlino
Date: 14:43:00 09/30/02
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On September 29, 2002 at 22:04:42, Andy McFarland wrote: >On September 29, 2002 at 17:47:56, John Merlino wrote: > >>On September 29, 2002 at 16:33:50, Rick Terry wrote: >> >>>Is the time control in this Match comparable to 40/2 or to the Current Fide >>>Standard time control? >> >>Originally, we wanted to do 30 moves in 60 minutes. But ICC does not support a >>moves/minutes time control. So, we THOUGHT we were doing something equivalent >>with 2+120, but we honestly did not expect the average length of the games (so >>far) to be 3 1/2 hours. >> >>jm > >On ICC, you can add time to your opponent's clock, up to 999 seconds at once. >So type "more 900" 4 times to add an hour. Autoflag should be off, as the >player might make the time control, but the clock could expire before the time >was added. > >45 30 (start with 45 minutes, add 30 seconds after each move) would give 60 >minutes for the first 30 moves, 75 minutes for the first 60 moves. 2 120 gives >122 minutes for the first 60 moves. > >Andy So, we were pretty close! Excellent. Larry didn't SEEM to be in time trouble, but he did mention to me, after game 3, that he would have liked to have a little more time to evaluate the follow-ups on his brilliant rook sac. Well, maybe in the rematch (if there is one.... :-) jm
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