TD TIP: Directors are not expected to know how to set delay or increment clocks (5F) but are encouraged to review the digital clock link at uschess.org.
Does this digital clock link exist? The only thing I can find that it might be referring to is a link on this page, uschess.org/content/view/7864/131/, that says “Using Digital Clocks (from Michael Atkins)” but the link doesn’t work.
Micah, you probably have the most complete and thorough version of anything like this that has ever been written. There probably is no such official document. U.S. Chess should just post a link to yours, even though nobody has had time (and probably never will) to “officially” approve it.
Either that, or the rulebook should stop advertising a non-existent link in the hopes that doing so will pressure somebody in officialdom to bring it into existence.
US Chess should feel free to post a link to my clock document, although it only explains what setting to use to set the popular digital clocks for one or two time controls with an increment.
Just noticed this, several years after it was posted. Obviously, paging someone through the forums is not the most effective way to reach anyone. My email address has been the same since moving to Baltimore in 2012.
The clock website was something that Carol Jarecki and I did, probably in 1999, so the stone ages as far as clocks are concerned. IN 2011, cox.net decided to end all of their members webpages with 30 days notice. The page continued at region3chess.com but I ended that site when discontinuing my role as MD-DC_VA tournament clearinghouse last year (Ernie Schlich does it now). If anyone wants the original page it is on my computer. Probably extremely obsolete now.
