Interesting concept, it would be like playing shorter time control over a longer period of time.
Tricky to implement in practice: I play a lot of daily games and sometimes I still think about some of the positions while I am going about my day, so I would still be using more time than my opponent if they limit themselves to time looking at the position.
Interesting concept, it would be like playing shorter time control over a longer period of time.
Ye, exactly. You could also do it another way: instead of the secondary time limit being X minutes/hours per move -- you could have just one big total time limit (e.g 2 hours) and you have to play all your moves in that time (while obviously still complying with the daily limits in which you have to make moves).
Basically it's chopping up a classical game over a period of days/weeks. With this system you could have "classical" tournaments on chess.com.
Tricky to implement in practice: I play a lot of daily games and sometimes I still think about some of the positions while I am going about my day, so I would still be using more time than my opponent if they limit themselves to time looking at the position.
Yep. I'm just assuming people will play by the rules and not do a workaround. If someone wants to think about the game during the day at different times then the existing system should be fine for that (ie no secondary time control). But I like the challenge of having a timer counting down and having equal footing in terms of equal time to think.
A nice (optional) feature/setting for correspondence games would be having a secondary time control. So the primary time control is: how many days (e.g 3) you have to play the move and then a secondary time control limit per move (e.g 15min). So in the e.g you have 3 days to play your move but only 15min thinking time.
(While you have the board position open/active in front of you the timer counts down your time.)
This would stop big asymmetries of play time being a factor in games... e.g 1 person thinks for 10min per move -- another player 1 hour.
It would be crucial for correspondence tournaments.
Thanks,
Small Titan