I didn't even realize there was a way to see how long a player takes to move on average TBH, unless it's a TD whose hosted tournaments you've been in in the past and just doesn't like you for some reason. Then it's his decision? Not everyone who hosts tournament is staff.
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This is really a ridiculous thing. One of the reasons I wanted to join the tournament is so I could play at a bit faster pace than my current games. I didn't even know this was a thing that was tracked, but now because I've had a few games take a couple days between moves I'm not allowed to enter a tournament? Give me a break. Should I just play a bunch of really stupid games to get my time down? It makes no sense to set it up this way. Like the OP said, I will adapt to whatever time constraint is in place. I'm not going to move quickly in a game that has a 7 day limit just because I want to keep my average time low so that I can play the tournament. Asinine. Just ridiculous. Absolutely absurd.
Most TD impose the max move time to prevent the players who engage in hundreds of tourney games and only play moves on games having a few hours left on their clock. These players drag out every tournament they play in because the have too many games open at once.
As a TD who exclusively host tournaments with < 3 hour average move time requirements, I can confirm what britesorb says here - I absolutely don't want to get in the players he mentions, as they would drag the tournaments on forever.
I can sympathize with Ryanjlind and TheaCook here, but with the current mechanisms available to TDs, it has to be this way - setting the average move time requirement to 6, 12 or more would simply ruin the fun for those players who want to play fast.
With requirements of 24 hour time control and < 3 hour average move time, my tournaments (with ~100 players in, 5(1)>2, 2(2)>1 or 7(1)>3) usually finish in 3-6 months.
You may ask why i host tournaments with such limits? It's simple. Its because thats the kind of tournaments I want to play in myself.
For anyone else unhappy with the tournaments available on chess.com I highly recommend organizing one to your liking as well. Invite your friends, regular opponents and wait for "the chess.com crowd" to fill up the rest. :)
I'm trying to understand why I am refused registration to some online tournaments because of my average move time.
When I register to play in any tournament, I adapt myself to the specified time control. On chess.com, I have played in a lot of 2 or 3=day per move tourneys. Unless my move is a no-brainer recapture or part of a sequence I've already calculated, I take time and care on my moves in these events because the time is available to me - that's simply what the time control IS in these events.
But when I've wanted the experience of playing in something faster-paced, like a few hours per move, frequently I am barred from entering because my average move time is too high. This strikes me as simply ludicrous.
Why can't the TD simply trust that I'm an adult and can adapt myself to the conditions of their event? I'm not going to be denied access to a blitz tourney because I played in too many weekend swisses, am I? When you specify the time control as a TD, you're TELLING the players how much time they have and they have to adapt or they lose their games. I just don't understand what looking at their past games played at other time controls has to do with whether they can register for an event with a different time control.
Can anybody provide me with a cogent rationale for restricting registration this way?
Many thanks!