Do you like standard (slow) chess with increments?

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  • Do you like standard (slow) chess with increments?

    This poll is to check whether there is any sort of favouring of time controls for standard (slow) chess other than those time controls with increments. I doubt that many respondents would much favour the other sorts of time controls that are listed as options, but I thought I'd check.
    21
    Yes
    90.48%
    19
    I prefer standard chess without increments, sudden death time control
    9.52%
    2
    I prefer standard chess without increments, no sudden death (even though adjournaments might happen)
    0.00%
    0
    Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
    Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer

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    Re: Do you like standard (slow) chess with increments?

    In case anyone doesn't recall sudden death time controls, Game in 2 hrs. would be an example. In Ottawa/EOCA events, that's what games with analog clocks use, with the 'equivalent' increment time control for digital clocks being Game in 90 minutes with 30 second increments.

    A non-sudden death analog time control would be e.g. 40 moves in 2 hours, then 20 moves per hour from then on. In the old days some weekend events used this, and adjournments were rarely necessary all the same.
    Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
    Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer

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      Re: Do you like standard (slow) chess with increments?

      Back in the 1980's, Toronto weekend swisses weren't supposed to ever have adjournments, but I seem to recollect one time an evening round was running late and one late game had to be adjourned since the tournament site building was being closed for the night.

      There used to be regular adjourning of games in the Toronto Closed back then too, but that's not quite what I had in mind when I posted this poll.
      Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
      Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer

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      • #4
        Re: Do you like standard (slow) chess with increments?

        I like increments.

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