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Beating the dead horse
Posted By: Rich Munitz In Response To: Awkward Clock Situation (Bill Riles)
Date: Monday, 6 July 2009, at 6:09 p.m.
Part of Brent Cohen's time trouble was clearly due to his lack of urgency in getting his dice out of his cup. I observed that he often would use as much of 8 seconds of his delay time on making his initial roll. I don't know what else was discussed out in the hallway, but he definitely went into a mode of shake once or twice and dump right at or around that point. So clearly he would not have been in the same pressure had he spent less time shaking. He learned a good lesson and was the first to admit it. But he insisted that he did not feel that he was otherwise playing unreasonably slow, and I encountered nobody that disagreed.
That said, Brent and other spectators had commented to me after the match that they and several others they had spoken to were of the opinion that 2 minutes per point was a bit too tight of a time control as time has become a factor a bit more often than it should. I did not personally raise this topic with anyone, these were all just independent comments of people that approached me. Maybe people still need to learn to manage their time better. Learn to roll their dice faster. Etc. But maybe not.
I am still very concerned that stories like this that seem to be coming out of each and every tournament will serve to taint the public's perception of clock play. I am now officially a proponent of 2.5/12 for the 2010 year as clocks get rolled out to the mainstream. Let people get used to it. See if tournaments still run on schedule. Tighten it up if delays result. But don't turn people off of clocks by making them play under these conditions from the outset. Even if it is their own fault.
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