Sam Trenholme wrote on Wed, Dec 9, 2009 12:31 PM EST:
OK, 18 games in 6 months. I would do this as follows:
Each participant is given a block of six games to play. The time control for the games is the same: 30 days to finish all of your moves, no grace time, no extra time. Adequate warning is given for when the games start so players don’t lose time making their first move.
In two months, all of the games will be finished. We will then have two more rounds that will be the same.
Should this site ever be down, we will make sure players are given appropriate extra time on their clocks. Fergus: It would be a very good idea to implement a universal way to have it so, should the site go down, you can report this in Game Courier (just let Game Courier know when the site went up), and all players who had the move when the site went down will be automatically given their time back, as well as having all games lost on time correctly reinstated as incomplete games. I had an unpleasant experience with Game Courier a couple of years ago because my opponent lost on time because the site went down; we were unable to correctly reinstate the game.
- Each participant is given a block of six games to play. The time control for the games is the same: 30 days to finish all of your moves, no grace time, no extra time. Adequate warning is given for when the games start so players don’t lose time making their first move.
- In two months, all of the games will be finished. We will then have two more rounds that will be the same.
- Should this site ever be down, we will make sure players are given appropriate extra time on their clocks. Fergus: It would be a very good idea to implement a universal way to have it so, should the site go down, you can report this in Game Courier (just let Game Courier know when the site went up), and all players who had the move when the site went down will be automatically given their time back, as well as having all games lost on time correctly reinstated as incomplete games. I had an unpleasant experience with Game Courier a couple of years ago because my opponent lost on time because the site went down; we were unable to correctly reinstate the game.
Does anyone have alternative proposals?