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Subject: Re: chesstiger 15

Author: Chessfun

Date: 05:52:13 10/05/02

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On October 05, 2002 at 08:04:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On October 04, 2002 at 12:01:22, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>Frankly I don't understand why someone would use a Fischer time control of X+Y
>>where Y is much bigger than X. Can someone explain the idea behind this?
>
>You get more or less the same average time per move, plus some extra
>slack for difficult positions. If you move quickly, you can build a
>reserve.
>
>2 12 for example is quite common on the next.

In this case the main reason they use it is for places like Yahoo where no
computer accounts exist and they need to toggle back and forth and manually make
the moves on a single PC. Therefore the "inc" minimum 5 is required to avoid
losing on time.

Sarah.



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