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Just change the TC to 2/15 and get it over with
Posted By: Barry Silliman In Response To: Just change the TC to 2/15 and get it over with (Coolrey)
Date: Thursday, 16 October 2008, at 1:11 p.m.
Does anyone know if the clock parameters can be set to 2/12 for me and 2/15 for my opponent? I don't know the answer because I don't have a clock.
The Excalibur GameTime II clock, which is probably the most popular since it is the one Carol Joy Cole sells, does not allow separate move delays per player. You have separate and possibly different time banks, but not move delays. The maximum time delay you can set on this clock is 19 seconds.
I know who Larry Liebster is, so I understand he is one of the older active players. I think I've only played him once, maybe 6 or 7 years ago at Renee's tourney at Thousand Islands. I can't even remember what I ate for breakfast this morning, but I don't recall a problem with slow play.
I would hope that the point of clocks is not to gain an edge, or game anyone, or alter the fundamental nature of the game, but to simply speed up the flow of the brackets and minimize delays. It seems that at the last several ABT events I've gone to, after one or two matches, whether I've stayed in the main or fallen into consolation, I've had these ridiculously long gaps of 5 or 6 hours, including dinner break, between matches on Saturday.
Ray, or to anyone else who was in Peoria who may have been watching the match Larry lost on time- do you think that if the time delay for Larry was 15 seconds he would not have lost on time? How about with 18 or 19 seconds delay? If this was the case, I would hope that a reasonable compromise could be reached that the time delay could be set higher in circumstances like this, at the director's judgment. Both players would get this increased delay. The effect on match length would be minimal.
Increases to the delay time (there is an upper limit of 19 seconds anyway) to accommodate physical impediments, seem reasonable to me, if the director agrees, unless we're willing to chase our elder statesmen out of the game. I can say from experience (almost 10 clocked matches so maybe it doesn't count) that 15 seconds makes a huge difference over 12 seconds for getting a good shake, rolling, making the move and punching the clock within the delay time a great majority of the time. I suspect adding a few more seconds on top of that might accommodate the elderly or infirm. If this isn't enough then alternatives might have to be considered, such as allowing a surrogate to roll the dice and move the checkers. If Stephen Hawking wanted to play, would we try to accommodate him or tell him to get lost?
The reserve bank time should not be messed with, because this to me is the main point of clocks, to reduce the interminable pondering over the opening 5-3 or the third roll of the game, or the new pip count taken prior to each roll, etc., etc.
People SHOULD lose on time if they are pondering too much. I don't want to see someone lose on time because a combination of a physical handicap and a short delay time ate into their reserve bank excessively.
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