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A "new" idea (?)

Posted By: Barry Silliman
Date: Friday, 5 September 2008, at 7:15 p.m.

In Response To: A "new" idea (?) (garyo)

that an experienced player would take advantage of another player by virtue of clock experience alone is galling to me.

I haven't got the impression from any of the pro-clock posts that anybody wants to do this. In fact, I think a majority of opinion may even be in favor of relaxing the current ABT settings (2 min. per pt/ 12 seconds grace) a bit, e.g. (2.5 / 15).

I really enjoy going to the ABT events, I usually go to just a few each year, those I can drive to. (I've done enough flying for work in years past and the TSA has just taken all the fun out of flying, but that's another story).

But it seems like the last couple ABTs I've gone to, I've had really long waits between matches, e.g. sometimes 5 or more hours. E.g. on Saturday at 2:30 pm I'm waiting on a match and it gets to be the 5:00 dinner break and I'm still waiting and then another hour or more after play resumes at 7:00. I'm just thinking that the use of clocks just might shorten the delay a little bit. (Maybe not "advancing" so quickly to the Last Chance bracket might help a little too).

One time at a tourney on a Sunday I was in last chance, and we were way behind, holding up the brackets. My opponent was excruciatingly slow, the kind who would agonize over an opening 53, e.g. The director came over to our table 2 or 3 times and encouraged us to speed up our match or he would put us on the clock. I didn't say anything any time because it sure wasn't me holding things up. Well, I wound up losing that match, and then my opponent's next match was put on the clock from the start. He lost, and I thought, gee I wish our match had been clocked. I guess I could have told the director the first time he came over to go ahead and clock us, but I didn't.

Anyway, the point is, the director was in a subjective situation, "clocks may be required for slow play", and he didn't want to be a bad guy and put the clock on in the middle of the match, but if clocks are just simply part of the process, then it becomes an objective situation with less need for the directors to make a subjective judgment call. Nobody needs to feel that they are being singled out for mistreatment or arbitrary decisions by the director.

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