ok–here is a question, just curious here-- how many of you in the last few years have
had adjourned games??
Rob Jones
It’s been quite a few years since I played an adjournment, but as a TD, I have had to adjourn games several times, most recently in December 2013. At several tournaments since then, I thought I would have to adjourn games, but the players “reached an agreement” when they saw me coming with the envelopes.
I have adjourned two in my lifetime, one in the late 1990s, and one about five years ago. In both instances, the board had to be moved mid-game because of a facilities issue.
I played in a very poorly run event once when the first day schedule got so far behind (more than two hours, and perhaps more than three) that the facility closed in the middle of Round 3. The TD suspended–not adjourned, suspended–all the games in progress for resumption the next day. The player on move when the suspension was announced was on move without his or her clock running for the entire night.
Mercifully, I had asked for a zero point bye when it was obvious round 3 was going to start no earlier than two hours after its scheduled start. I was given a half point because of the epic fail, in flagrant violation of the announced bye policy.
To this day, I regret that I didn’t complain to TDCC regarding the director’s inefficiency.
My coworker told me that once when he was a kid he found $20 bill at the pool. He gave it to a lifeguard who said that he will return it to my coworker if it isn’t claimed. The next time, the lifeguard said $20 bill was claimed, but to this day my coworker suspects that the lifeguard was lying.
The point of my previous post (I’m interpreting Mr. Langer’s last post as a fully warranted criticism that the point is not clear):
People ought to know how to adjourn and be prepared to do it when warranted. Because when you need to do it, you really need to do it.
Occasionally it is legitimate to suspend a game without officially adjourning it.
There was one scholastic tournament in 2006(?) where there was a fire in the kitchen near the playing hall (with smoke starting to get into the hall). There were about 30 games going on at that time.
There was one NYA (2003?) where the fire alarm went off during the round. There were more than 150 games going on at that time.
In both cases the games were simply suspended. They were resumed maybe a half-hour to an hour later after the fire departments gave their okay.
I apologize for the dig. I liked your post and the point of it was clear to me. The last line just struck a cord.
Michael Langer
Suggested Time Control for USCF Rated One-Day 4-Rd Events
In Oklahoma we use
G-50 + 15 sec to get in 4 rounds.
That is … 10 – 12:30 - 3 – 5:30 pm (everyone on the road by 7:30)
and it would be dual rated. 