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Sort: Pawnputty Dec 22, 2010 0 #1

I JUST DONT SEE ANY REASON FOR TIME DELAY. IT ALLOWS ONLY OPPORTUNITY FOR A FAST PLAYER TO FREEZE THE CLOCK.

ivandh Dec 22, 2010 0 #2

I agree, that is why I choose not to play with time increments.

Pawnputty Dec 22, 2010 0 #3

WE SHOULD BAN INCREMENTS OVER 1 SECOND

ivandh Dec 22, 2010 0 #4

Well first I would ban the use of all caps. Please.

Some people use increments so that draws can be called as such. Otherwise a fast player will run your time down and go away with the win when it should have been a draw. So there is a use for them.

As I said, you can choose not to play in games with time increments, rather than try to enforce your own personal preferences on everyone else. This way everyone is happy!

dc1985 Dec 22, 2010 0 #5

We should also ban people who abuse the Caps Lock key.

Increments are just fine, if you know how to play chess you should be able to checkmate your opponent.

Pawnputty Dec 22, 2010 0 #6 dc1985 wrote:

We should also ban people who abuse the Caps Lock key.

Increments are just fine, if you know how to play chess you should be able to checkmate your opponent.

Pawnputty Dec 22, 2010 0 #7

WHEN YOU FREEZE THE CLOCK, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED

DrSpudnik Dec 22, 2010 0 #8

Everyone complains about time increments. But what about time excrements?!

DanMcClintic Dec 23, 2010 0 #9

As a tournament director I prefer time increment or delay, this gets rid of any chance of a player claiming insufficent losing chances and forcing me to insert my judgement in the game,  The game should always be decided on the board if at all possible and between the players playing.

DrSpudnik Dec 23, 2010 0 #10

The introduction of clocks means that the game is not decided on the board. Time increments mean that everyone has to buy digital clocks: an added expense that I have, as yet, resisted.

The club I play in has received over the years a number of digital clocks and they all go the way of the Dodo: no one can figure out how to set them. Eventually they get thrown out.

DrSpudnik Dec 23, 2010 0 #11

We had a chronos. Someone mercifully spilled root beer on it and put it out of our misery.

We had a Saitek clock that only one person could set until the batteries rotted it to death.

We had this flimsy curved "simple" clock (I forget the brand but it was new about 5-6 years ago) and NO ONE could figure it out even with the instruction book.

The ancient BHBs are still going.

heinzie Dec 23, 2010 0 #12

Ways to cheat online

Aborting games where you're black

Internet lagging

Disconnecting when losing so your rating won't go down

Using increments to stop the time

Freezing the clock

Premoving

Flagging opponent in losing position

Castling when Rook is under attack

Using en passant

Eating waffles to boost your performance

Lasers

Atos Dec 23, 2010 0 #13

I am puzzled, the OP hasn't played a single game here with or without increments, but he is posting to protest about increments ?

heinzie Dec 23, 2010 0 #14

He's registered to vent his anger about this scummy otb practice

Atos Dec 23, 2010 0 #15

Oh I see, so in OTB they are holding a gun on his head forcing him to play with increments. 

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