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Clocks that "give back" time

Posted By: Tom Keith
Date: Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 7:48 p.m.

In Response To: Clocks that "give back" time (Bob Koca)

I think my proposal would be a lot more relaxed than with the current system. You have 18 seconds before your reserve time starts counting down instead of 12. That's a lot of comfort time!

I guess you're saying that if a player was very low on time he might be sloppy even with forced moves to try to build up his time. But I don't think players would get desperately low with this system. First, it's easier to tell if you're getting low (because your reserved time stays relatively constant throughout the match). Second, if you see your reserve time getting too low you only have to play slightly faster to start building it up again.

So I think the opposite would be true -- that players would take more care in the placement of checkers than with the current system.

Messages In This Thread

• Peoria Clock Discussion
  Bill Riles -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 5:32 p.m.
  • Peoria Clock Discussion
    Leonardo Jerkovic -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 5:40 p.m.
  • Peoria Clock Discussion
    neilkaz -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 6:16 p.m.
    • Peoria Clock Discussion
      Leonardo Jerkovic -- Wednesday, 10 October 2012, at 12:13 a.m.
  • Clock Discussion
    garyo -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 7:29 p.m.
  • Peoria Clock Discussion
    Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 8:48 p.m.
    • Peoria Clock Discussion
      Bill Riles -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 8:54 p.m.
      • Peoria Clock Discussion
        Victor Ashkenazi -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 9:22 p.m.
        • Peoria Clock Discussion
          Bill Riles -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 9:40 p.m.
          • Peoria Clock Discussion
            Stick -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 9:45 p.m.
            • Peoria Clock Discussion
              Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 10:20 p.m.
              • Peoria Clock Discussion
                Stick -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 10:23 p.m.
                • Peoria Clock Discussion
                  Victor Ashkenazi -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 10:40 p.m.
                  • Peoria Clock Discussion
                    Casper van der Tak -- Wednesday, 10 October 2012, at 8:16 a.m.
            • Peoria Clock Discussion
              Joe Russell -- Wednesday, 10 October 2012, at 12:04 a.m.
              • Peoria Clock Discussion
                Stick -- Wednesday, 10 October 2012, at 3:51 a.m.
              • Peoria Clock Discussion
                Stick -- Wednesday, 10 October 2012, at 10:05 a.m.
          • Peoria Clock Discussion
            Casper van der Tak -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 9:46 p.m.
            • Peoria Clock Discussion
              Casper van der Tak -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 9:49 p.m.
        • Peoria Clock Discussion
          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 10 October 2012, at 2:39 a.m.
          • Peoria Clock Discussion
            Stick -- Wednesday, 10 October 2012, at 3:52 a.m.
          • Peoria Clock Discussion
            Christian Munk-Christensen -- Wednesday, 10 October 2012, at 6:30 a.m.
          • Peoria Clock Discussion
            Victor Ashkenazi -- Wednesday, 10 October 2012, at 1:37 p.m.
            • Peoria Clock Discussion
              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 10 October 2012, at 10:43 p.m.
              • Peoria Clock Discussion
                Victor Ashkenazi -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 3:23 a.m.
                • +1 *NM*
                  Ken Meng -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 7:31 p.m.
        • Peoria Clock Discussion
          neilkaz -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 6:34 p.m.
  • Peoria Clock Discussion
    Henrik Bukkjaer -- Tuesday, 9 October 2012, at 8:54 p.m.
  • Better with better testimony
    Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 10 October 2012, at 11:30 p.m.
    • Better with better testimony
      sunny -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 3:30 a.m.
  • Peoria Clock Discussion
    David Rockwell -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 3:34 a.m.
    • Two Stage Timing
      Colin Owen -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 12:28 p.m.
      • Two Stage Timing
        Bob Koca -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 1:55 p.m.
        • Two Stage Timing
          Colin Owen -- Monday, 15 October 2012, at 5:02 a.m.
      • Two Stage Timing
        neilkaz -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 5:51 p.m.
        • Two-Stage Timing
          Taper_Mike -- Friday, 12 October 2012, at 6:03 p.m.
          • Two-Stage Timing
            Colin Owen -- Monday, 15 October 2012, at 5:54 a.m.
            • Two-Stage Timing
              Taper_Mike -- Wednesday, 17 October 2012, at 10:47 a.m.
    • Peoria Clock Discussion
      Henrik Bukkjaer -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 1:27 p.m.
      • Peoria Clock Discussion
        Colin Owen -- Friday, 12 October 2012, at 12:37 a.m.
    • Clocks that "give back" time
      Tom Keith -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 2:02 p.m.
      • Clocks that "give back" time
        Stick -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 2:15 p.m.
        • Clocks that "give back" time
          Tom Keith -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 2:32 p.m.
      • Clocks that "give back" time
        Bob Koca -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 4:20 p.m.
        • Clocks that "give back" time
          Tom Keith -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 5:17 p.m.
          • Clocks that "give back" time
            Bob Koca -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 7:27 p.m.
            • Clocks that "give back" time
              Tom Keith -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 7:48 p.m.
      • Clocks that "give back" time
        Bob Koca -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 4:22 p.m.
        • Clocks that "give back" time
          Tom Keith -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 5:21 p.m.
      • -1
        neilkaz -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 5:41 p.m.
      • Fischer time settings
        eXtreme Gammon -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 8:10 p.m.
    • Peoria Clock Discussion
      Taper_Mike -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 4:10 p.m.
      • Peoria Clock Discussion
        Bob Koca -- Thursday, 11 October 2012, at 4:18 p.m.
        • Peoria Clock Discussion
          Taper_Mike -- Friday, 12 October 2012, at 6:25 p.m.
          • Peoria Clock Discussion
            Michael Nielsen -- Saturday, 13 October 2012, at 8:41 a.m.
          • Peoria Clock Discussion
            Bob Koca -- Saturday, 13 October 2012, at 2:55 p.m.
            • Peoria Clock Discussion
              Taper_Mike -- Wednesday, 17 October 2012, at 10:27 a.m.
    • Peoria Clock Discussion
      David Rockwell -- Friday, 12 October 2012, at 2:24 a.m.
      • Peoria Clock Discussion
        neilkaz -- Friday, 12 October 2012, at 3:34 p.m.
  • Peoria Clock Discussion
    Stick -- Friday, 12 October 2012, at 2:00 a.m.
    • Peoria Clock Discussion
      falafel -- Friday, 12 October 2012, at 8:05 a.m.
      • Peoria Clock Discussion
        Stick -- Friday, 12 October 2012, at 8:14 a.m.
  • Peoria Clock Discussion
    Sam Pottle -- Friday, 12 October 2012, at 4:12 a.m.
  • peripheral issue?
    Chuck Bower -- Friday, 12 October 2012, at 5:08 p.m.