the clock

skywalker · Alter Hase Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 226 Location: Saxony

wolf was arguing with me about the clock.
he thinks the 2 or 3 sec delay between 2 moves is a gravon bug. but i think it isn't a mistake, it's correct.
i also used a chess clock and there was also such a delay.

maybe our admins or the chess players here can tell wolf that this is normal.

thanks
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ruben87 · Posted: 14.06.2006 13:13 Post subject:

I played against Meiko today, I lost a terrible lotto loss. But during the game I realised we did not play with clock.

Is this Victory legal or not?

Thanks

stratego · Posted: 14.06.2006 15:32 Post subject:

hi rubens,

i think you are talking about a tourney game.
the first round is WITHOUT clocks. please read the tourney rules.

in general:
the clock system we use, is called a "bronstein" modus.
this modus has free seconds per move (depends of the settings)
so the 2,3,4 free seconds each move are correct. this is to prevent
a situation in an endgame, where only the clock decides the result.
with the free time each move you cannot force a running out of time
by doing nothing - just playing fast simple moves without any action
will end in a draw. (when the main game time is over)

stratego