FIDE authorising use of 45/30 time control for norms

[LawrenceCooper]

https://www.fide.com/faster-60-and-45-m ... w-changes/

[Matt Mackenzie]

Predictable, but still not good.

[Alex Holowczak]

Federations have received a survey to fill in, which is currently being discussed and completed. I will certainly be reading people's thoughts here before making my contributions, so feel free to make them.

[Roger de Coverly]

I will certainly be reading people's thoughts here before making my contributions, so feel free to make them.

If the ECF wants tournaments with three rounds in a day to be unconditionally rated, it needs to ask for the two games a day restriction to be removed for tournaments where Norm chances don't arise.
Does the USCF still have tournaments with three rounds in a single day? There certainly used to because that's where Stewart Reuben and perhaps others got the idea from.

[IM Jack Rudd]

It's authorized for norms, but the schedules that would make it sensible are not. Yay, joined-up thinking.

[Paul McKeown]

I believe I once came across a rather satirical description in German of an attempt to speed up chess in the early 20th century as "Dampfschach" - steam-driven chess. I can't remember who it was that used this word, but I am sure that they would approve of my condemnation of this unnecessary cheapening of the rating and title system using the same term.

[Tim Spanton]

60m with a 30s increment seems OK to me, although I prefer 90+30

[Matt Mackenzie]

There used to be quite a few English weekend congresses with a three round day (usually Saturday) but I think that has almost died out now.

[Alex Holowczak]

There used to be quite a few English weekend congresses with a three round day (usually Saturday) but I think that has almost died out now.

They are still going in places. Adam Raoof organises them with time limits of 60+30 in London. I organise some in Warwickshire, with a time limit of 80+10.

[Roger de Coverly]

They are still going in places. Adam Raoof organises them with time limits of 60+30 in London. I organise some in Warwickshire, with a time limit of 80+10.

They are popular where a Friday evening round would be difficult. Witney, Kidlington and St Albans are examples where the move rate is 90 minutes + 15 seconds.
Derbyshire and the Somerset New Year are other examples. Essentially it's any 5 round tournament over two days.

[Joey Stewart]

I seen to remember such 3 game a day congresses being heavily disrupted by certain players abusing the 30 seconds increment to drag especially long endgames on for an unnaturally extended duration