From: Matt Casters <matt <at> NETPOINT <dot> BE>
Date: 11 jul 1997
Subject: Re: Byo Yomi (was European Style of playing shogi)

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Kees wrote:
>In Chess other time-measurement options become slowly in fashion. One in
>particular is a proposal by Robert Fischer: you start out with 30
>minutes and after having made a move you get 30 sec. added to it

I like this a lot, especially for quick shogi games.
The problem (I think) is that if you do a knock-out game
in about 3 minutes, it's not that hard to make your oponent
run out of time. Not so with Fisher-time.  If you move
quickly 5 times in a row, you have time to think.
You can do for example 1 minute + 5 seconds fisher.
Afther 15 opening moves you should have about 2 minutes on
your clock.

Another thing we tried out on our shogi-evenings, is the hour-glass.
(fun guaranteed)  It goes like this : if one person thinks,
he loses time and the other gains time.
For example, if I think 10 seconds on move 1 the clocks would be
1:50 and 2:10. (if you start with 2 minutes each)

Of-course, as Kees mentioned before, you need digital clocks
for these variations.  Most digital chess clocks can be used.
The disadvantage of these clocks is that they don't beep in
byoyomi.

Have fun,

Matt

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