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Time to talk about time settings

Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier
Date: Thursday, 26 March 2009, at 8:10 p.m.

In Response To: Time to talk about time settings (Chuck Bower)

My conclusion is that, assuming the current settings are close to being reasonable but tweaks are desirable, it's better to change the reserve time per matchpoint than the free time per move.

I'm not sure whether this is true or not. The extreme case of this would be simply allotting a lot of analog time which seems like a bad idea. Decreasing the delay to 6 seconds and increasing the reserve time also seems like something that would be undesirable. But who knows, I wouldn't mind playing in a speed event with something like a 6-8 second delay and a little reserve time.

I still feel that it makes more sense for events to set their own TCs (e.g., longer TCs in multi-day tourneys like Vegas, shorter TCs in weekend events like Chicago or Carolina) rather than to have a stipulated ABT catch-all TC.

Messages In This Thread

• Time to talk about time settings
  Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 26 March 2009, at 5:22 p.m.
  • Time to talk about time settings
    Stein Kulseth -- Thursday, 26 March 2009, at 5:58 p.m.
  • Time to talk about time settings
    Bill Riles -- Thursday, 26 March 2009, at 6:05 p.m.
    • Time to talk about time settings
      Rich Munitz -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 4:33 a.m.
  • Time to talk about time settings
    neilkaz -- Thursday, 26 March 2009, at 6:27 p.m.
  • Time to talk about time settings
    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 26 March 2009, at 8:10 p.m.
    • Time to talk about time settings
      Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 26 March 2009, at 9:14 p.m.
      • Time to talk about time settings
        Gregg Cattanach -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 12:24 p.m.
        • Time to talk about time settings
          Chuck Bower -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 12:54 p.m.
          • Time to talk about time settings
            Gregg Cattanach -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 12:59 p.m.
            • Time to talk about time settings
              Chuck Bower -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 3:01 p.m.
          • Time to talk about time settings
            Rich Munitz -- Saturday, 28 March 2009, at 3:48 p.m.
            • We need more experiments
              Chuck Bower -- Saturday, 28 March 2009, at 4:56 p.m.
              • We need more experiments
                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Saturday, 28 March 2009, at 7:17 p.m.
    • Time to talk about time settings
      Stick -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 4:50 a.m.
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        neilkaz -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 2:21 p.m.
        • Time to talk about time settings
          Bob Koca -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 2:50 p.m.
          • Time to talk about time settings
            Chuck Bower -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 3:09 p.m.
            • Time to talk about time settings
              Bob Koca -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 4:40 p.m.
          • Time to talk about time settings
            Jason Lee -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 3:12 p.m.
  • Time to talk about time settings
    dc-ohio -- Thursday, 26 March 2009, at 11:03 p.m.
    • Time to talk about time settings
      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 26 March 2009, at 11:13 p.m.
      • Time to talk about time settings
        dc-ohio -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 2:58 a.m.
        • Time to talk about time settings
          neilkaz -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 3:05 a.m.
        • Time to talk about time settings
          Stick -- Friday, 27 March 2009, at 4:47 a.m.
        • Time to talk about time settings
          TarHeelFan -- Monday, 30 March 2009, at 3:30 p.m.
          • Time to talk about time settings
            Jason Lee -- Monday, 30 March 2009, at 7:23 p.m.
            • Time to talk about time settings
              TarHeelFan -- Monday, 30 March 2009, at 8:42 p.m.
              • Time to talk about time settings
                dc-ohio -- Monday, 30 March 2009, at 10:37 p.m.
              • Time to talk about time settings
                Jason Lee -- Monday, 30 March 2009, at 10:48 p.m.