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I think it is misleading to think of Fischer time as being a different sort of byo-yomi.
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The most obvious difference is that if I have 29 seconds left in Fischer and see a move after (say) 4 seconds then if (say) Fischer time is 7 seconds then I have 33 seconds left to make my next move.
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If I am in 30 seconds byo-yomi after my next move I have 30 seconds left to make my next move.
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If one is used to taking every last second in byo-yomi to take a decision "just-in-case" then one had to consider Fischer as being flexible "sudden death" with one period of main time.
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Treating Fischer as byo-yomi is an error whether one is 5 Dan or 25 kyu.
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"One particularly notable development, which has gained quite wide acceptance in chess, was proposed by former world champion Bobby Fischer</span>
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer" title="Bobby Fischer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(107, 75, 161); hyphens: none;"></a>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, who in 1988 filed for US patent 4,884,255 (awarded in 1989) for a new type of digital chess clock. </span>
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[...] [which] gave each player a fixed period of time at the start of the game and then added a small amount after each move. [...] In this way the players would never be desperately short of time." </span>
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On 09 March 2020 at 09:00 Colin Williams via tournament-org <
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Geoff,
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In terms of move numbers there was one game - Round 1 I think - that ended with a very long ko. By the end one pot of stones had been exhausted and the player was onto an extra pot from the neighbouring board, so it must have been well over 300 moves, if not nearer 340. They had a very short break before the start of round 2.
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I personally wouldn’t want less than 7 seconds a move when in byo-yomi - possibly we could reduce the base time to 50 or 55 minutes? As you say though we do need move data, somebody must have done an analysis of this in the past. Does anyone out there have anything?
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Regards,
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From: Geoff Kaniuk via tournament-org <
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Sent: 08 March 2020 14:09
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To: TOUR List <
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Subject: [tournament-org] Trigantius2020
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There were a few novel features in the tournament this year, so I thought to report them here.
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BGA PRINTER
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I had a major problem with the BGA printer the night before the tournament. It refused to print and claimed it could not feed the paper. I had to revert to my own laptop and desktop printer.
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DIY REGISTRATION
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The diy registration system worked well, leaving me free to attend to other matters. The main issue was responding to Corona by re-arranging the tables to create more space between players. This did lead to a delay in the start time of about 20 mins. All players did pay at the end of their first game and there were only a few corrections needed.
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MEMBERSHIP
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There were 17 players not a member of BGA, but 5 of these renewed on the day.
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TIMING
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The Fischer time settings of 61 + 7' per move did improve timekeeping, but even so there were still a very few players who did manage games much longer than 2.5 hours. Unfortunately the clocks do not record the number of moves. We need number of move data in order to set Fischer time parameters sensibly.
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