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Apologies to Clock Aficionados

Posted By: David
Date: Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 1:47 p.m.

After witnessing my time scramble in Cleveland (I had only 24 seconds left when the last game started), Howard Markowitz, Tournament Director extraordinaire, told me the sight of someone flinging around the dice and checkers with no thought whatsoever was so repulsive to him that it turned him off to using chessclocks.

Messages In This Thread

• Apologies to Clock Aficionados
  David -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 1:47 p.m.
  • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
    Bill Riles -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 1:51 p.m.
    • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
      Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 8:08 p.m.
  • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
    Stick -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 2:02 p.m.
    • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
      David Rockwell -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 2:55 p.m.
      • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
        Coolrey -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 4:01 p.m.
      • Concerning rolling
        neilkaz -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 5:12 p.m.
        • Concerning rolling
          David Rockwell -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 5:25 p.m.
        • Concerning rolling
          garyo -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 10:26 p.m.
    • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
      Coolrey -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 3:56 p.m.
      • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
        Chiva Tafazzoli -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 3:58 p.m.
        • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
          Coolrey -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 4:02 p.m.
  • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
    Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 2:26 p.m.
    • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
      Sam Pottle -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 3:16 p.m.
      • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
        Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 8:47 p.m.
        • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
          Sam Pottle -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 2:42 a.m.
          • We don't agree..I am sorry
            neilkaz -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 2:48 a.m.
            • We don't agree..I am sorry
              rod -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 4:01 a.m.
              • We don't agree..I am sorry
                Coolrey -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 10:55 a.m.
                • We don't agree..I am sorry
                  Rod -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 6:44 p.m.
                  • We don't agree..I am sorry
                    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 7:14 p.m.
                    • We don't agree..I am sorry
                      Keene -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 7:23 p.m.
                      • We don't agree..I am sorry
                        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 8:02 p.m.
                        • We don't agree..I am sorry
                          Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 9:02 p.m.
                          • We don't agree..I am sorry
                            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 10:51 p.m.
                    • For Sale, cheap!
                      KenB -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 8:58 p.m.
                      • For Sale, cheap!
                        Coolrey -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 11:37 p.m.
                        • For Sale, cheap!
                          Lynda Clay -- Thursday, 9 April 2009, at 7:03 p.m.
                    • We don't agree..I am sorry
                      Coolrey -- Thursday, 9 April 2009, at 6:20 p.m.
                  • We don't agree..I am sorry
                    Coolrey -- Thursday, 9 April 2009, at 12:05 a.m.
                    • We don't agree..I am sorry
                      rod -- Thursday, 9 April 2009, at 1:28 p.m.
            • We don't agree..I am sorry
              Rich Munitz -- Monday, 13 April 2009, at 1:20 a.m.
              • Oops - Above is response to '2/12 is too fast for OTB ' thread *NM*
                Rich Munitz -- Monday, 13 April 2009, at 2:05 a.m.
          • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
            Jason Lee -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 4:12 a.m.
            • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
              Sam Pottle -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 5:02 a.m.
              • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
                Jason Lee -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 5:22 a.m.
    • Apologies to Clock Aficionados
      Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 4:32 p.m.
  • With all due respect
    neilkaz -- Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 6:43 p.m.
    • With all due respect
      Coolrey -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 11:23 a.m.
      • 2/12 is too fast for OTB
        jdg -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 3:08 p.m.
        • 2/12 is too fast for OTB
          Stick -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 3:15 p.m.
          • 2/12 is too fast for OTB
            Bill Riles -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 3:26 p.m.
          • Emperical results from ABT on manditory clocked matches
            jdg -- Friday, 10 April 2009, at 2:10 p.m.
            • Emperical results from ABT on manditory clocked matches
              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 10 April 2009, at 4:05 p.m.
            • Emperical results from ABT on manditory clocked matches
              Bob Koca -- Friday, 10 April 2009, at 7:56 p.m.
        • 2/12 is too fast for OTB
          Gregg Cattanach -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 3:47 p.m.
        • 2/12 is too fast for OTB
          mamabear -- Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 4:11 p.m.