22-10-2017, 12:17 PM
Increments are pretty much the way we are heading now. Non increments have been moved from the Laws of Chess appendix and are now only in the guidelines and are likely to disappear completely by 2020 / 2021.
Vote was had at SNCL AGM and overwhelmingly approved. If we do have a problem with long overruns (which based on the last 3 or 4 years of using them at various tournaments up and down the country, is very much the exception, not the norm), there are other time controls with increments that we can use that are still compliant with the minimum 4 hour playing session required. (150 mins +10 seconds that we are using here in Scarborough).
If you don't like increments, you are going to find that tournaments you want to play in are very very limited due to the changing of the Laws of Chess
Vote was had at SNCL AGM and overwhelmingly approved. If we do have a problem with long overruns (which based on the last 3 or 4 years of using them at various tournaments up and down the country, is very much the exception, not the norm), there are other time controls with increments that we can use that are still compliant with the minimum 4 hour playing session required. (150 mins +10 seconds that we are using here in Scarborough).
If you don't like increments, you are going to find that tournaments you want to play in are very very limited due to the changing of the Laws of Chess
"How sad to see, what used to be, a model of decorum and tranquility become like any other sport, a battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee"