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A better clock for backgammon

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Wednesday, 11 March 2015, at 2:58 a.m.

In Response To: A better clock for backgammon (Colin Owen)

I will let Chris Yep or Mochy answe the more technical details, but my vision of this revision is that we can start out with less time in the bank to begin with but if we get into very long games the time increases 3 seconds. That way we still have to move fairly quickly on individual moves but we don't find ourselves playing speed gammon if it is a long game.

Again this is for money games and I am not sure at all how to use this added time in matches in a way that still ensures a match will not take longer than a specified period of time as would be required to keep a tournament moving.

Messages In This Thread

• A better clock for backgammon
  Phil Simborg -- Monday, 9 March 2015, at 9:56 p.m.
  • A better clock for backgammon
    Omar Shah -- Monday, 9 March 2015, at 11:13 p.m.
    • A better clock for backgammon
      Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 10 March 2015, at 12:31 a.m.
  • A better clock for backgammon
    Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 10 March 2015, at 3:42 a.m.
  • A better clock for backgammon
    Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 10 March 2015, at 12:52 p.m.
    • A better clock for backgammon
      Colin Owen -- Tuesday, 10 March 2015, at 4:47 p.m.
      • A better clock for backgammon
        Phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 11 March 2015, at 2:58 a.m.
        • A better clock for backgammon
          Colin Owen -- Wednesday, 11 March 2015, at 3:28 a.m.
          • A better clock for backgammon
            Chris Yep -- Wednesday, 11 March 2015, at 6:40 a.m.
      • A better clock for backgammon
        Chris Yep -- Wednesday, 11 March 2015, at 6:31 a.m.
        • A better clock for backgammon
          Colin Owen -- Thursday, 12 March 2015, at 4:53 a.m.
          • A better clock for backgammon
            Chris Yep -- Friday, 13 March 2015, at 7:06 a.m.
      • A better clock for backgammon
        Tom Keith -- Wednesday, 11 March 2015, at 1:06 p.m.
        • A better clock for backgammon
          Tom Keith -- Wednesday, 11 March 2015, at 1:10 p.m.
        • A better clock for backgammon
          Colin Owen -- Wednesday, 11 March 2015, at 2:16 p.m.
  • Is this how it works?
    Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 10 March 2015, at 5:19 p.m.
    • Is this how it works?
      Chris Yep -- Wednesday, 11 March 2015, at 5:22 a.m.
  • A better clock for backgammon
    Kevin Finch -- Saturday, 14 March 2015, at 7:11 p.m.