What do you use? Analog clock or digital.

I have a bhb analog clock. Just curious about how many analog users are here. ;)

I have a digital clock.

No disrespect intended but I think analog clocks belongs in a museum

I have both suprisingly! :P. I only use the digital one though.

I own none. Anyhow, I prefer the digital one when playing.

bobbyDK wrote:

I have a digital clock.

No disrespect intended but I think analog clocks belongs in a museum

Its ok. I didnt do my research and found an analog on ebay. I like it, but now i have my eyes on a chrono. At least i wont be curious about analog anymore. Note. 1st time using a clock of any sort. So its still good to me, till i get the digital.

I don't own any chess clocks but I do have a digital chess clock app on my phone if that counts

I have dgt2010 I think this is great for otb chess.

I haven't played otb chess for about 3 years now so I might have to replace it if I choose to play again. It isn't new anymore.

Those of us old-timers loved the BHB's.  I have personally seen players throw them against the wall in a fit of rage and they still worked fine; they are durable.  And to walk into a tournament and hear 20-30 clocks all ticking away--that was the sound-bed of tournament chess; if you had heard that and it didn't get your competitive juices flowing, you weren't a true chess player.  Some other things about them: in a time scramble, you never knew exactly how many seconds were left, so you could do the "clock gambit" moves--play a risky move and watch the other guy try to estimate whether he has 6 seconds or 30 seconds to figure it out (a thing of the past with digital).  You could adjust the attenuator to make one side run faster/slower than the other, which led to some amusing incidents, like in the 2nd World Open, where 10 minutes after the round started one guy used 20 minutes already.  Another trick was to wind your opponents side of the clock tight, while leaving your side loose--the loose side would run a little slower than the tight side. I'd say that most people would use my points here as an arguement against analog clocks, but I still have a place in my heart for them. 

Definitely digital.  They are much more reliable than analog clocks since they do not having a spring to wind up.  Also, analog clocks can be tampered with to make one side tick faster than the other.

I am old enough to remember tournaments where all players had only analog clocks.  All that ticking sometimes got annoying (although some players seemed to find it soothing).

Most importantly of all, you need a digital clock if you want to use increments and delays, which almost everyone does want these days.  If you bring an analog clock to a tournament, it is very likely that you won't get to use it since your opponents will insist on using a digital clock (and the rules would support them).