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Date: 09 Sep 2005 06:09:17
From: The Man Behind The Curtain
Subject: Do they still adjourn chess games?
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In this age of computers you can stuff in your sock that are very
powerful, do they still adjourn rated games in tournaments/ches?
Just curious.
John
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Date: 16 Sep 2005 08:55:33
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Subject: Re: Do they still adjourn chess games?
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Also Jerry Weikel's tournament in October in Reno up until this year
had a repeating time control and 2 rounds a day so adjournments were
forced. The time control used to be 40/2 20/1 20/30 30/30repeating
(not too good for any chess clock as most don't have the ability for 4
time controls with the final one repeating. This year the website
seems to suggest it's 40/2 20/1 SD/30.
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Date: 09 Sep 2005 09:21:55
From: Raimund Klein
Subject: Re: Do they still adjourn chess games?
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The Man Behind The Curtain schrieb:
> In this age of computers you can stuff in your sock that are very
> powerful, do they still adjourn rated games in tournaments/ches?
What does one thing have to do with the other?
There still is an appendix to the FIDE Laws of Chess describing how to
adjourn games, but I haven't seen it in practice for quite a while.
However, the main reason is that tournament schedules have experienced a
tendency of getting tighter with two, sometimes three games per day, so
there simply is no time for continuing an adjourned game anymore; time
controls are defined so that there is no more need for adjourning a
game. Also, as always, there is another reason (proclaimed by FIDE):
When there are spectators for a game, they want to see it to the end,
not just the beginning.
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Date: 10 Sep 2005 06:48:00
From: Shieldfire
Subject: Re: Do they still adjourn chess games?
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On Friday 09 September 2005 09.21 Raimund Klein spoke unto the unsuspecting
world:
> The Man Behind The Curtain schrieb:
>> In this age of computers you can stuff in your sock that are very
>> powerful, do they still adjourn rated games in tournaments/ches?
>
> What does one thing have to do with the other?
>
> There still is an appendix to the FIDE Laws of Chess describing how to
> adjourn games, but I haven't seen it in practice for quite a while.
> However, the main reason is that tournament schedules have experienced a
> tendency of getting tighter with two, sometimes three games per day, so
> there simply is no time for continuing an adjourned game anymore; time
> controls are defined so that there is no more need for adjourning a
> game. Also, as always, there is another reason (proclaimed by FIDE):
> When there are spectators for a game, they want to see it to the end,
> not just the beginning.
I don't know about international events, but in local tournaments - sure.
I played in one this spring. Not everyone is going for shorter, more compact
tournaments. The spring one has the semi-old time restrictions:
40 moves in 2 hours - adjournment - 20 moves in 1 hour then the rest in 30
minutes.
/MS
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