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My clock proposal for ABT events for 2009 and beyond
Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier In Response To: My clock proposal for ABT events for 2009 and beyond (Frank_N_Stein)
Date: Sunday, 26 October 2008, at 4:35 p.m.
And this is spoken from a non handicapped person? Are we now saying who can play or not play because of their motorskills?
If they cannot play within the time allotted (e.g., due to motor skill problems) then they can use a surrogate to roll the dice. I'd like to make extra considerations for everyone but 1) there is no good or fair way to tell who gets the extra time and who doesn't and 2) delaying the entire tournament is clearly too big of a price to pay.
Purposely playing slow is one thing, but to hold a handicapped perosn to a higher standard is another. I do not play chess, how is this situation handled there?
I do not feel that it is holding them to a higher standard, just the same standard as everyone else. Blind/elderly/handicapped players do not get extra time in chess tournaments
Sure, there must be time considerations where you do not want a tour held up from one person, but you also do not want to be known a tour that discriminaes. *spelling*
If you selectively give out more time to certain players, isn't that what you're doing?
Also note that there is no standard way to handle this situation and often it will be that both players are given extra time (of course, it wouldn't surprise me that sometimes both players are given extra time and sometimes only one player is given extra time, which is just utterly ridiculous).
This is one reason I would prefer 1.5/15 over 2/12. Also, if 2/15 is too slow for most ABT events (i.e. not just leisurely but slow enough that it delays the tournament), then a transitional year of 2/15 helps to figure that out. If you don't have delays, then fine, if you still have delays, switch to 1.5/15.
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