Regular Tournaments?

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So I was wondering if there are any regular length tournaments any more? Maybe I'm just not understanding the event schedule? Also, I used to play around a year ago and there were regular tournaments?

Rooster-1992AIC

Most are bizarre time controls. Not the usual 3|2 or 10|0

goatking7

The time control will be different every Saturday. I don't know if theres one every month, but sometimes 30 min will be on Saturday

Rooster-1992AIC

30 lasts toooooooooo long. It will sometimes start late at night as well, and then go till 3 in the morning

Martin_Stahl

The fourth Saturday of each month is 30|0

Rooster-1992AIC

15|10 is long enough, 30 is just excessive. If you need that long, play in an OTB

Martin_Stahl
Rooster-1992AIC wrote:

30 lasts toooooooooo long. It will sometimes start late at night as well, and then go till 3 in the morning

The 30|0 event is at 11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern. It doesn't run that late

Rooster-1992AIC

I saw a longer time control tournament starting late one night recently. Maybe it was 15|10

Martin_Stahl
Rooster-1992AIC wrote:

I saw a longer time control tournament starting late one night recently. Maybe it was 15|10

The 15|10 starts at 5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern. I think most of them are done well before 3 am Eastern.

Rooster-1992AIC

If you have an average game length of 40 moves and each round there is one game that lasts almost the full time, then the total time the tournament uses would be about 3 hours and 15 minutes. That's a long time

Bruce_Hedman

In the fall the Waltham Chess Club will be offering a cash-invitational with a time control of 45|5 with one section at 9:30 pm. It runs 5or6 weeks, and is USCF rated.

Rooster-1992AIC

I would like a nice 10|0 on a Saturday at like 3pm Eastern

Martin_Stahl
Rooster-1992AIC wrote:

I would like a nice 10|0 on a Saturday at like 3pm Eastern

The first and third Saturday is a 10|0 at 2 pm Eastern

Rooster-1992AIC

Thank you.