Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 07:52:56 10/05/02
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On October 05, 2002 at 08:52:13, Chessfun wrote:
>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.
OK. You mean I should really fix this? :)
Christophe
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