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Emperical results from ABT on manditory clocked matches

Posted By: jdg
Date: Friday, 10 April 2009, at 2:10 p.m.

In Response To: 2/12 is too fast for OTB (Stick)

No... but I'm playing online clocked 2/15 regularly. In many ways it feels like a clocked 10 minute chess match: hurried, but not speed chess. Of course, my brain is slower than in my youth.

I don't see way we need to play speed backgammon in the ABT. If the purpose to prevent schedule disruptions, what's the issue with an extra 3 sec per move? You can answer that, if you'd like: anybody got stats from Europe on hours per round? Auto moves will be played just as fast. If the ABT changed the cocked dice rules to accommodate the physical shaking and rolling of the dice, or if baffle boxes were used to avoid non-shaking of the dice, then 2/12 would be OK. And, I think 1.5/15 would also be good.

Are not the clock rules different in Europe?

Finally, I'll ask the empirical question: for clocked ABT tourneys WITH MANDATORY clocked matches so far this year, how many matches are getting into time trouble. If less than 2%, then I'll concede to evidence. Note: voluntary clocking doesn't count, as voluntary clocked matches implies people who consider themselves (true or not) to be fast players.

jdg

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