Welcome in your Negotiation Forum. Your rated game must be completed before Tuesday, January 20 @ 00:00 USA ET (New-York). Time control is G90|30. The players must observe the Negotiating Protocol below and the instructions given by the arbiter.

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Negotiating Protocol

The players must use this Negotiation Forum to agree about when to start the game. No other mean of communication can be used.

The first of the two players to get in here must obligatory offer three (3) initial starting times for a game in accordance with the four (4) Guidelines (in red, blue, green and pink) shown below. The second of the two players to get in must obligatory accept one of the other player's initial starting time offers or, if accepting is impossible, counter-offer with three (3) initial starting times following the same Rules and Guidelines. The deadline to fulfill this necessary task is Wednesday, January 14 of 2014 @ 00:00USA ET.

If no agreement is found after the six (6) initial starting times have been offered, the players must keep negotiating in the way Ping-Pong players return the ball, offering and counter-offering one or more starting time(s) at a time.

Here are the four (4) Guidelines that one has to comply with when making the three (3) initial starting time requirement:

An offer to play before Tuesday January 13 @ 6:00USA ET does not count;
There must be at least three (3) hours between two (2) starting times;
There must be at least twenty-four (24) hours before posting time and starting time;
A twenty-four (24) hour playing period cannot contain more than two (2) initial starting times;

The player must respond withing twenty (24) hours after the opponent or the arbiter (me) has posted. Thus, one must connect to chess.com at least once per day. We negotiate in English and always use USA ET (New-York).

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Support & Useful Links

Here is a link to a Negotiation Forum Sample to show how the players must proceed.

Do not hesitate to use our Players' Availability Datas to increase your chances that one of your proposals is accepted by the other player.

Here is a link to a Time Zone Converter.

Short 90|30 Tourney #14 ( Dec 29 - Jan 19)

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