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Date: 18 Jul 2006 00:16:22
From: Sanny
Subject: What are the Chess Tournaments Time Controls.
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I would like to know the Basic Rules on Time Controls.
Things I want to know are.
1. Max time each player can take for a single move.
2. I have heard some 40 Moves rule. What is that?
3. What happens if the game takes more than 40 moves
4. Is it neccesary to have each tournament game played withing the Time
Control
5. Can we postpone a Chess game to be played another day (Say Someone
have a headache etc.)
I have heard of many types of tournaments
1. Lightning
2. Rapid Chess
3. Knockout System
And a few others. What are the differences in Time Controls for these
game.
Currently games at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html
Takes below times So I am interested to know wheather I can put this
game to be played in a tournament?
Beginner Level: 5-10 seconds {makes 40 moves in 7 minutes}
Easy Level: 30-50 seconds {makes 40 moves in 35 minutes}
Normal Level 1-2 Minutes {makes 40 moves in 1.5 hours }
Master Level: 2-4 Minutes. {makes 40 moves in 2 hours}
I am interested to know if Normal Level and Master Level be able to
take part in Time Controlled Tournaments?
Bye
Sanny
Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html
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Date: 18 Jul 2006 00:58:16
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What are the Chess Tournaments Time Controls.
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Can you learn to cross-post rather than posting the same identical
message on four different usenet groups?
Sanny wrote:
> Bye
> Sanny
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Date: 18 Jul 2006 00:56:16
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What are the Chess Tournaments Time Controls.
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Sanny wrote:
> I would like to know the Basic Rules on Time Controls.
G/30, G/45, and G/60 are all popular. Each side has 30/45/60 minutes to
play all their moves.
> 1. Max time each player can take for a single move.
As much or as little as they like.
> 4. Is it neccesary to have each tournament game played withing the Time Control
Absolutely, or you immediately lose.
> 5. Can we postpone a Chess game to be played another day (Say Someone
> have a headache etc.)
It depends on the particular tournament. Some allow you to skip one or
more games, some do not.
> What are the differences in Time Controls for these game.
The USCF recognizes Regular and Quick games. Regular games are G/30 or
longer. Quick games are G/10 to G/29.
> Beginner Level: 5-10 seconds {makes 40 moves in 7 minutes}
> Easy Level: 30-50 seconds {makes 40 moves in 35 minutes}
> Normal Level 1-2 Minutes {makes 40 moves in 1.5 hours }
> Master Level: 2-4 Minutes. {makes 40 moves in 2 hours}
If you made your program UCI or Winboard compatible it could
participate in computer chess tournaments. Unfortunately your program
rarely meets time controls, even on a 3 GHz P4 with 512 MB of RAM.
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Date: 18 Jul 2006 21:17:49
From: Bjoern
Subject: Re: What are the Chess Tournaments Time Controls.
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Sanny, in general I can strongly recommend the FIDE webpage, which has a
lot of information including all the rules of chess + definition of time
controls and a lot of other things about tournaments.
[email protected] wrote:
> Sanny wrote:
>>1. Max time each player can take for a single move.
> As much or as little as they like.
Up to the total time remaining...
>>4. Is it neccesary to have each tournament game played withing the Time Control
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> Absolutely, or you immediately lose.
Unless you can not be mated any more by any sequence of legal moves
(e.g. if white has h-pawn + king vs. black's king + knight when white's
time falls, then white loses, while if he didn't have the h-pawn it
would have been a draw!).
>>5. Can we postpone a Chess game to be played another day (Say Someone
>>have a headache etc.)
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> It depends on the particular tournament. Some allow you to skip one or
> more games, some do not.
Potentially Sanny's question referred to whether one can postpone a game
while already playing it. This is also possible in some tournaments, but
it is becoming *very* rare nowadays (probably priily in order to keep
people from doing computer analysis at home).
Sanny also wrote:
> 2. I have heard some 40 Moves rule. What is that?
> 3. What happens if the game takes more than 40 moves
It's not the 40 moves rule, it's the 50 moves rule.
If no pawn has been moved for 50 moves in a row and if also no piece of
any kind has been captured during these 50 moves, then one can claim a
draw. Typical situation is white K+B+N vs. black K, if white every now
and then plays this inaccurately and fails to mate as quickly as
possible (always possible in less than 35 moves, I think) and black can
then sometimes get a draw due to the 50 move rule.
> I have heard of many types of tournaments
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> 1. Lightning
> 2. Rapid Chess
> 3. Knockout System
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> And a few others. What are the differences in Time Controls for these
> game.
Lightning: usually e.g. 1 or 2 minutes per player for the whole game.
Blitz (you forgot that one): 3-9 minutes per player for the whole game.
This gets a bit more complicated when a little bit of extra time is
added for each move that has been played (e.g. every player has 3
minutes to start of with and gets an additional 2 seconds before making
each move).
> Takes below times So I am interested to know wheather I can put this
> game to be played in a tournament?
[...]
> I am interested to know if Normal Level and Master Level be able to
> take part in Time Controlled Tournaments?
Nowadays most tournaments for human players are quite reluctant to allow
computers to enter, but there are the occasional specific computer
tournaments.
One very useful option (as already pointed out by likesforests) for you
could be to get your program compatible to UCI or windboard, I believe
then it ought to be possible to let it play on one of the internet chess
servers, where there often are provisions for computers to play against
each other. One server could be FICS (www.freechess.org) That would
allow you to get the program to play a lot of games against other
computer programs or humans (particularly if you let it play at a short
time control like 3-5 minutes for the whole game).
Eventually it would also get a rating on the server that would tell you
how well it is doing compared to other players on that server.
--Bj�rn
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