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Los Angeles Open Updates

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Saturday, 13 June 2009, at 4:42 p.m.

In Response To: Los Angeles Open Updates (Bill Riles)

Afterwards, did Hugh have anything to say about the clock or clock settings?

Nothing, but he high tailed it out of there pretty fast.

Unfortunately (from my perspective), a match such as yours may only fuel the fire of anti-clock individuals and those promoting increased settings.

Could be.

Why do you think you both used so much time?

For me, it was the so-called UBK doctrine. It was a long (19 games) tough match, and I took my time. In spite of the fact that I dragged it down to 43 seconds, I do not ever feel like I was in any kind of serious time trouble. I had a comfortable 3+ minutes going into DMP and tried to be as careful as possible in an obviously important game.

As I mentioned before, Hugh used up a lot (at least 5, maybe more) minutes in the game where he was down -3*/-1, trying to get a backgammon. He took a lot of time on a LONG game where checkers kept getting recirculated. A lot of my plays were forced or very easy.

I think the real problem for public perception is that Hugh perceived that he was in big trouble, when he wasn't... he was in a LITTLE trouble.

And was it an 11 point match?

13 points.

JLee

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