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Backgammon clock app for iPhone

Posted By: Rich Munitz
Date: Friday, 17 December 2010, at 5:49 a.m.

In Response To: Backgammon clock app for iPhone (Stick)

Interestingly, while Backgammon rules call for use of a Bronstein clock, according to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_clock ), the Bronstein clock should actually behave like this iPhone App does. What we are used to is referred to as "Simple delay".

Bronstein delay — with the Bronstein timing method, the increment is always added after the move. But unlike Fischer, not always the maximum increment is added. If a player expends more than the specified increment, then the entire increment is added to the player's clock. But if a player has moved faster than the time increment, only the exact amount of time expended by the player is added. For example, if the delay is five seconds, the player has ten seconds left in his clock before his turn and during his turn he spends three seconds, after he presses the clock button to indicate the end of his turn, his clock increases by only three seconds (not five).

Simple delay — when it becomes a player's turn to move, the clock waits for the delay period before starting to subtract from the player's remaining time. For example, if the delay is five seconds, the clock waits for five seconds before counting down. The time is not accumulated. If the player moves within the delay period, no time is subtracted from his remaining time. This time control is similar to a Bronstein with time added before the move.

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