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Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Monday, 16 February 2009, at 9:51 p.m.

In Response To: Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms (mamabear)

Since there is no good reason to permit the use of computers

I'm going to take issue with this.

First of all, I completely understand and mostly agree with all of the arguments AGAINST playing or allowing matches to be played on computers -- I think they're good arguments. I probably wouldn't do it myself -- Steve Sax once or twice asked me to play a match on Snowie, and I declined.

The good reason for permitting the use of computers to play matches is to easily have a record of the matches. I note that there are VERY few records of matches played OTB. Neil Kazaross notes, rightly, that people like to watch important matches, or matches between strong players. It is a shame that there are so few matches available for people not in attendance to be able to look at.

Certainly, video cameras can mitigate this problem, and I don't think that there is any reason that ANYBODY should insist that a director allow this.

All I wanted to do was to offer a small rebuttal to the "no good reason".

JLee

Messages In This Thread

• Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
  Bill Riles -- Sunday, 15 February 2009, at 11:13 p.m.
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    Rich Munitz -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 12:00 a.m.
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    David Rockwell -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 1:47 a.m.
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      Bob Koca -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 2:38 a.m.
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        Bill Riles -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 2:43 a.m.
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          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 3:04 a.m.
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      Stick -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 3:12 a.m.
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        Rich Munitz -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 6:15 p.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 5:16 a.m.
    • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
      garyo -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 5:50 a.m.
    • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
      Barry Silliman -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 12:39 p.m.
      • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
        Jason Lee -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 2:56 p.m.
        • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
          Stick -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 3:20 p.m.
      • Playing matches on a lap top with a bot interface
        neilkaz -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 4:08 p.m.
        • Playing matches on a lap top with a bot interface
          Bill Riles -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 4:11 p.m.
        • Playing matches on a lap top with a bot interface
          Jason Lee -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 4:30 p.m.
    • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
      mamabear -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 9:36 p.m.
      • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
        Jason Lee -- Monday, 16 February 2009, at 9:51 p.m.
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        garyo -- Tuesday, 17 February 2009, at 6:06 a.m.
        • Bill Davis on Time Clock Alarms
          Barry Silliman -- Tuesday, 17 February 2009, at 1:01 p.m.
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            garyo -- Sunday, 22 February 2009, at 3:41 p.m.