add 1.5 day time control?

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sacaric

I really enjoy the speed of the 1 day time control games, but since I make my chess moves in the evening each day, the 1 day control can be inconvenient.  For instance if I make a move early one evening and the opponent quickly makes a move and then I get home late the next evening, I would be beyond my time.  Of course automatic vacation time prevents disasters, but it would be very convenient to have a time control that was slightly longer than 1 day.  30 hours or 36 hours (1.5 days) would be nice.

Does any one else feel the same way?

Nytik

A good point, daily time controls can be quite inconvenient for the once-a-day-er. However, may I suggest that instead of entirely new time controls, you try 2-days-per-move, which you will find to be not much different (players tend to move at the same speed) and you will not flick auto-timeout on every few days! Smile

Painterroy

You should just stick with the 2 day control. I agree about the 1 day being too much trouble. I work for a living so a 24 hour setting is too restrictive to me. I had to constantly avoid making any move before 10 pm every night just in case my opponent made a quick move, I would still have a little time the next day after I got home to look over the game before my next move. But still for working people, 24 hours is too much trouble.

TheGrobe

One problem with adding more time controls is that it further fragments the seek pool and makes it more difficult to find matching games.

I wonder if implementing qualifiers like "at least" or "at the most" to seeks wouldn't help.  That I could put a seek our for any matching game that has time controls of "at least" one day per move (or alternatively "at the most" 3 days per move) that way I could match with 1.5 day games if they were implemented.  Even better might be move duration ranges that could be declared with your seek much like those that are currently in place for ratings.

sacaric
TheGrobe wrote:

One problem with adding more time controls is that it further fragments the seek pool and makes it more difficult to find matching games.

I wonder if implementing qualifiers like "at least" or "at the most" to seeks wouldn't help.  That I could put a seek our for any matching game that has time controls of "at least" one day per move (or alternatively "at the most" 3 days per move) that way I could match with 1.5 day games if they were implemented.  Even better might be move duration ranges that could be declared with your seek much like those that are currently in place for ratings.


that is a good point about fragmenting the pool.  I try to use 2 day time control when I can, but most tournaments are either 1 day or 3 day.  The 3 day tournaments can really drag on as the last games are being finished at the slowest pace so I prefer 1 day to 3 day.

Jollymann

I guess this is the place for it.  I think there'd be a great deal of value in less than 1 day per move for cooresponence style.  Say like 12 hour, or 18, or 20.  Something like that.  The rational for me, besides just prefering it, is that there's less chance for games dragging on unnecessarily.  3 days/move for me I've found to be impossible.  Yes I know I can play the "live" chess, and I will more often here, and I have on other sites like Chess Manic, but there's a great deal of value to coorespondence style and I tend to go with that more often than not.  I guess it wouldn't be that popular and there'd be fewer people who'd go with it.  I know someone could get burned making a move early in the evening, then hitting a time limit in the afternoon.  Still, an option for a lot of us might work and might add value.  It ought to be an option.

D.J.