This is why i only play unrated 2/1 games. I dont have to deal with online "drama"
Time controls should not be in chess.
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zezpwn44 wrote:
Why do people who have never played an OTB tournament in their lives always come to these forums making radical suggestions to change chess?
"Abolish stalemate, it's too complicated for me to understand" "abolish en passant, I don't know how a space advantage is supposed to work" "time controls are bad"
You have to gain respect in a field before people want to hear your opinion. This doesn't just go for chess, it goes for any field, and I don't think it's disrespectful to say so. No one would take a high school biology student seriously if he went to a biology conference and made radical proposals. No one would take a little league baseball player seriously if he showed up at an MLB rules commitee meeting and wanted to make the games 4 innings instead of 9.
Your place is study and hard work, not advocacy for radical suggestions. The harsh reality is that you need to get your master title, and then people might want to hear what you have to say.
...And by that point, you will no longer wish for time controls to be abolished ;).
Actually, I have played in many OTB tournaments, and I am an approx. 1650 rated player (as of this post). I know perfectly well what I'm talking about. How can you compare the perfectly fair stalemate and en passant rules (which are very easy to understand btw), to time controls that can rob a victory from someone with a won position? Also, I do put study and hard work into chess, so I don't know where that comment came from.
Your argument falls flat in so many areas. These forums are to share opinions, and I don't mind being wrong or discussing things. But people on these forums (like yourself) seem relunctant to discuss ideas and are massively full of themselves.
"There have been many instances when I am crushing my opponent yet because I can't think fast enough I lose on time."
This is why you study. You dont ask that a time control be taken away, you put the time in, to learn how to get past these points.
kaynight - "Maybe it is because your thread is far- fetched. You set yourself up for this."
For what exactly? 
Dudes please be nice. If you find the topic uninteresting then just ignore it. No need to be rude
e4_guy wrote:
@KingKool493
How old are You ?
:)
Why does that matter?
Jun 29, 2015
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KinGKooL493 wrote:
e4_guy wrote:
@KingKool493
How old are You ?
:)
Why does that matter?
Because, if You're under 20, such foolish idea can be attributed to Your age.
Otherwise . . . No point to discuss it any further.
Jun 29, 2015
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Of course not, being 20 is cool.
kaynight wrote:
Eh. Nothing wrong with us under20's pal.
e4_guy wrote:
KinGKooL493 wrote:
e4_guy wrote:
@KingKool493
How old are You ?
:)
Why does that matter?
Because, if You're under 20, such foolish idea can be attributed to Your age.
Otherwise . . . No point to discuss it any further.
Foolish idea in your opinion. You are calling me immature when you don't want to discuss things like an adult. Oh the irony...
Time controls aren't for everyone's tastes. However, I'll have to accept them since most people are fine with them. Let's all agree to disagree.
neverherebefore wrote:
What a nice history. Ill try to remember it
I am reminded of the Morphy anecdote where he asked an opponent(after a long time apparently) "Why don't you move?" "I thought it was your turn" he replied
Fischer allegedly laughed at that.
KinGKooL493 wrote:
zezpwn44 wrote:
Why do people who have never played an OTB tournament in their lives always come to these forums making radical suggestions to change chess?
"Abolish stalemate, it's too complicated for me to understand" "abolish en passant, I don't know how a space advantage is supposed to work" "time controls are bad"
You have to gain respect in a field before people want to hear your opinion. This doesn't just go for chess, it goes for any field, and I don't think it's disrespectful to say so. No one would take a high school biology student seriously if he went to a biology conference and made radical proposals. No one would take a little league baseball player seriously if he showed up at an MLB rules commitee meeting and wanted to make the games 4 innings instead of 9.
Your place is study and hard work, not advocacy for radical suggestions. The harsh reality is that you need to get your master title, and then people might want to hear what you have to say.
...And by that point, you will no longer wish for time controls to be abolished ;).
Actually, I have played in many OTB tournaments, and I am an approx. 1650 rated player (as of this post). I know perfectly well what I'm talking about. How can you compare the perfectly fair stalemate and en passant rules (which are very easy to understand btw), to time controls that can rob a victory from someone with a won position? Also, I do put study and hard work into chess, so I don't know where that comment came from.
Your argument falls flat in so many areas. These forums are to share opinions, and I don't mind being wrong or discussing things. But people on these forums (like yourself) seem relunctant to discuss ideas and are massively full of themselves.
1650 is like one year's worth of serious chess study though. I think the comparison to a high school biology student is prety fair, don't you?
I think Staunton standardised it that white moved first.before then the colour of the pieces did not determine who went first
Just in Jeopardy!!!!!!!!!!!
Obviously the OP knows next to nothing about chess history . Time controls in chess and chess clocks were invented precisely because of all the problems connected to playing untimed chess !
LuftWaffles wrote:
OP I noticed you haven't tried "online chess" on here. Check it out.
There's still a time control of sorts, but it's measured in days, and really it's up to each player to decide how much time actually goes into each move, depending on how much spare time you have of course.
There are moves you can be sure of in seconds, and there are endgames you could analyze for days... it's not everyone's cup of tea, but it sounds like you might like it.
Thanks for the kind suggestion LuftWaffles - I'll give it a go!
Jun 30, 2015
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alex-rodriguez wrote:
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If you keep advertising for a site you are sure to get your account deleted at some point...
Simple solution. Just play per move time control chess. So instead of a 3 minute game (with or without increment), the equivalent would be that each player gets say 8 seconds per move. Then after the move has been made, their clock resets to 8 seconds. That's all the time control they get. If the 8 seconds runs out on any move, they lose.
This way, only the skill on the chess board determines who wins.
And no one would pay to see a tournament. And no one would know when the tournament would end.
Doesnt that mean a tournament ticket would be a bargain?
Why am I buying single game tickets, or seasonal tickets, when I could buy one single chess match ticket and watch it for a lifetime?!
REMOVE TIME CONTROLS!!!!!