Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 08:05:20 12/03/98
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On December 03, 1998 at 06:13:40, Micheal Cummings wrote: >On December 03, 1998 at 04:08:17, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>One move must be submitted per day. Use any hardware you want. Use GM advice >>if you like. If you fail to make a move within 24 hours after receipt of the >>previous move, you forfeit on time. Leave pondering on if you like. Basically, >>it would be a "ply per day" tournament with the moves produced any way you like. > > >What happens if someone server goes down, or if you send move via email, and it >does not go through. It would be great if a game going for two months is >forfeited because of a net stuff up. If the net goes down, you could have a phone number to call. Just give the pgn over the phone. I think that there could be "gentleman's agreements" if there were a severe power failure, or system crash, or whatever. >Good idea, but you have to take into consideration that someones move might get >delayed due to a breakdown in the net. Mails are generally timestamped by the server as they are sent. We might also allow for three different "one day grace" periods. Certainly, cheating might be possible -- but it is always possible in unsupervised contests over the net.
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