Author: Dan Kiski
Date: 06:47:26 12/15/98
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On December 15, 1998 at 09:39:51, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >On December 15, 1998 at 09:21:37, Harald Faber wrote: > >>On December 15, 1998 at 09:12:00, Micheal Cummings wrote: >> >>>>>>>I am still not sure that CM6555 is any different from faber\Pilz. >>>>>> >>>>>>It should not be, except for the opening book. Anyhow someone changed from the >>>>>>original to the mentor book. That is not my suggestion but sounds interesting to >>>>>>test. >>>>>> >>>>>>>Time controls 40 moves in 120 minutes, balance 30 minutes. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> W L D GAMES SCORE >>>>>>>CM 6555 72 52 76 200 110 >>>>>>>CM 6000 52 72 76 200 90 >>>>> >>>>>What do you mean 30min balance, and is the 40 moves in 120min for each player or >>>>>is that 20 moves in 60 minutes for each player. I have seen both these settings >>>>>and both been stated at 40/2hrs. >>>> >>>>Usually it is 40moves in 2h plus 1h each for 20 moves. Balance could mean for >>>>the rest of the game. :-? >>> >>>So what are you saying :) >>>20/1hr for each player or 40/2hr for each player. >> >>Both. ;-) >>Although 20/1h is the same as 40/2h, usually 1st time control is after 40 moves, >>so 40/2h+20/1h+20/1h+20/1h+.... >>This can be very long, if you play 100 moves then it will be 10h altogether. >>That is why in Germany (and I think in some other European countries) another >>time control is getting more popular: 40/2h+rest/1h, that limits the total >>playing time to 6h. > >Double :-) > >I was getting confused here for a sec because I have heard people say play games >win 30min time setting, that could mean 30 min total time, which is 15mins for >each player, or it could also mean a 30min time setting for each player making >it a hour game. > >So when I hear 40/2hr, I have seen it also referred to as 40 moves by each side >in 1hr, Thus a total time of 2 hrs, with each side making 40 moves for there own >hour. So therefor it could also read 80/2hr total. Am I confusing you yet :-) > >But you are saying that each player has 40 moves to make in 2hrs. Which what >sounds like a 2hr game is really a 4hr game if 40moves were made for each side. > >so in total 80 moves will take 4hrs, 40 moves takes 2hrs, with only each side >making 20 moves an hour. Have I confused you more yet :-) LOL it is getting confusing, I have always seen time controls as each player. With mine I stated 40 moves in 120 minutes balance 30 minutes, that is per side. I always assumed everyone worded there time controls to mean per side not total.
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