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Clock Petition - flagging

Posted By: Barry Silliman
Date: Saturday, 25 October 2008, at 10:42 p.m.

In Response To: Clock Petition - flagging (garyo)

I think that clocks can work to the advantage of the inexperienced player as well as to the advantage of the experienced player. It gives the experienced player less time to do the lengthy mathematical calculations that they are more likely than the inexperienced player to be making. Multiplying 6x6 is easy. Multiplying 36x36 is harder. Multiplying 36x36x36 is much harder.

This isn't about equity. It is about reducing the most common complaint of tournaments- long delays in the brackets that irritate everybody.

These delays are just as common in the Advanced bracket as they are in the Open bracket, despite the shorter matches.

Clock all the matches in Open. If you can't handle the clock, I think you're in over your head. I've only played two people in a dozen ABT tournaments who would probably be in trouble with the clock if they played at their usual pace. And I know that one of those two is capable of playing, and playing well, at the clocked pace. (See my first paragraph). An interesting experiment would be to split the Advanced into two brackets- clocked and unclocked, and see which side had the most participation.

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