Author: Chessfun
Date: 09:37:49 10/05/02
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On October 05, 2002 at 10:52:56, Christophe Theron wrote: >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? :) > Actually makes no difference to me. Only time I ever use "inc" is to take care of lag when autoplaying a fixed time like 60' game. Sarah.
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