10-09-2012, 10:49 PM
I don't want to deflect from the topic of the adult olympiad but am convinced that in the junior equivalent we have a problem. That problem is the 30-second Fischer time control. We rarely play this system at all at home yet within other countries it is a standard. Now, some of our juniors might have been tired but we were struggling badly game after game when it came down to this format. Our opponents were used to this system, to us it is alien apart from the top world/european events. Our normal weekend congresses don't allow for this system to operate, how can we deal with this problem? There is no doubt about it, to use a poker term, you need to be able to change gear when you are closing in at the finish.
Robin.
Robin.