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How about adjudication of all unfinished games at 2pm ? This would allow a full one hour break and all games start at 3pm.
We had adjudications in the good old days when games not finished on time.
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Hamilton, with a few prehistoric beings in the squad, are struggling to raise a team this year, when will the 1st round draw be made ?
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The decision to move to an incremental time control was made at the SNCL agm in March so should go ahead for this season. However, Andy Muir has raised a serious point regarding the effect of a long morning game. Personally I once had a very short gap between games due to the morning round starting late and being in a game which went right to the quickplay time limit and felt it affected my afternoon form (any excuse will do).
A game lasting 90 moves can continue till 2:30. A game lasting 120 moves can continue until 3 when the next round starts. Is it practical to allow individuals a minimum time between rounds? If this was set at half an hour, it would only come into effect for games lasting over 90 moves.
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Andy M - adjudication, really?!?! I'm astonished that a strong and experienced player would propose such an unsatisfactory and downright unfair way of deciding the result of a game.
Generally speaking I'm a fan of increments, and I trust the organisers to come up with a time control which will see most games end in decent time, with only a tiny fraction likely to run close to the starting time of the second game. It's a fact of chess that whenever you have two games in a day, players involved in a long first game are likely to feel some fatigue going into the next one. Sometimes it will be you; other times it will be your opponents, and we all just have to deal with it as best we can.
I agree that there should be a certain minimum guaranteed break between games, even if it's (for example) as little as 15 minutes to allow players involved in a marathon game to visit the loo and grab a snack/coffee before the next game. Hopefully, the starting times of afternoon games will only have to be postponed in rare and extreme cases.
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I am going to set Wednesday as the cut off. Glynis and I need to hear from Hamilton, IPCC and Musselburgh by then. If nothing is heard by then, I am going with the teams I have
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Hamilton and Musselburgh have confirmed. Just waiting on IPCC now
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