22-10-2017, 11:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 22-10-2017, 12:18 PM by John Watkins.)
Scottish National Chess League Rules 2017/2018:
1. All games shall be played in accordance with the Laws of chess as laid down by FIDE except
where modified below:
a. Mobile Phones will be allowed in the venue but must be switched off. Should a phone ring during play, the game will be declared lost for the owner of the phone.
b. Default time for games will be 30 minutes.
2. Games will start at 10am for the morning session and 3pm for the afternoon session.
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4. The rate of play will be all moves in 90 minutes with a 30 second increment from move 1 (in
exceptional circumstances time control may be modified by the arbiter.)
So start time must be set in stone for 10am sharp.
1) A 30 move game would end at 1.30pm at the very latest.
2) A 60 move game would end at 2.00pm at the very latest. (this is when all games should have finished assuming the start was on time last season).
3) A 90 move game would end at 2.30pm at the very latest. How many of them were there last year in reality?
4) A 120 move game would end at 3.00pm at the very latest. How many of them were there last year in reality?
No provision in rules for minimum break time. So should players try to do a simul over 2 boards to avoid a 30 minute default and/or handicap their afternoon game. Where does their morning game get moved to in order to free up the board for the afternoon game? What happens to the opponents in the afternoon game? What if both opponents in an afternoon game are still playing their morning game? What is the cut off?
No provision in the rules for adjudication. When would that kick in anyway? 2pm everyone stops play and arbiters have to go around every game in progress to adjudicate? Who would be first in that queue? What happens if arbitration of the morning games is not finished by 3pm?
I could go on but a simple solution, in the absence of reverting to the old time controls, is to only play the morning game or afternoon game. Alternatively you could cut down the increment to 20 seconds per move and the 90 move game would finish at 2pm leaving only really long games in progress (very few I would assume).
1. All games shall be played in accordance with the Laws of chess as laid down by FIDE except
where modified below:
a. Mobile Phones will be allowed in the venue but must be switched off. Should a phone ring during play, the game will be declared lost for the owner of the phone.
b. Default time for games will be 30 minutes.
2. Games will start at 10am for the morning session and 3pm for the afternoon session.
...
4. The rate of play will be all moves in 90 minutes with a 30 second increment from move 1 (in
exceptional circumstances time control may be modified by the arbiter.)
So start time must be set in stone for 10am sharp.
1) A 30 move game would end at 1.30pm at the very latest.
2) A 60 move game would end at 2.00pm at the very latest. (this is when all games should have finished assuming the start was on time last season).
3) A 90 move game would end at 2.30pm at the very latest. How many of them were there last year in reality?
4) A 120 move game would end at 3.00pm at the very latest. How many of them were there last year in reality?
No provision in rules for minimum break time. So should players try to do a simul over 2 boards to avoid a 30 minute default and/or handicap their afternoon game. Where does their morning game get moved to in order to free up the board for the afternoon game? What happens to the opponents in the afternoon game? What if both opponents in an afternoon game are still playing their morning game? What is the cut off?
No provision in the rules for adjudication. When would that kick in anyway? 2pm everyone stops play and arbiters have to go around every game in progress to adjudicate? Who would be first in that queue? What happens if arbitration of the morning games is not finished by 3pm?
I could go on but a simple solution, in the absence of reverting to the old time controls, is to only play the morning game or afternoon game. Alternatively you could cut down the increment to 20 seconds per move and the 90 move game would finish at 2pm leaving only really long games in progress (very few I would assume).
John Watkins