I now own chess

[ketchuplover]

Decree #1 - All players will think at least 10 seconds before each move. Thank you

[Smythe_Dakota]

What if a player has only 9 seconds left, and he has only one legal move?

Bill Smythe

[brennanprice]

@Smythe Dakota

What if a player has only 9 seconds left, and he has only one legal move?

Bill Smythe

And what if that move produces stalemate?

[Smythe_Dakota]

Aha! Another end-of-game rules puzzle for the Running Tournaments forum.

Bill Smythe

[jjamesge1]

A long time ago, there were lighting speed tournaments. Players didn’t have a clock. Instead, a guy in the room would verbally give a 10 second count down, and if you didn’t move by the end of it, you lost the game. :mrgreen:

[Smythe_Dakota]

Not very lightning-ish by today’s standards, was it?

Bill Smythe

[relyea]

@jjamesge1

A long time ago, there were lighting speed tournaments. Players didn’t have a clock. Instead, a guy in the room would verbally give a 10 second count down, and if you didn’t move by the end of it, you lost the game. :mrgreen:

Rapid transit chess. Now, of course, we could replicate this by doing G 1 second;d5 or d10. It wouldn’t be rateable, but it might be fun to organize.

Alex Relyea

[Smythe_Dakota]

@relyea

… Rapid transit chess. Now, of course, we could replicate this by doing G 1 second;d5 or d10. …

This replication wouldn’t be quite equivalent to the original. In the original, for example, if a player moves after just 2 seconds, he would still have to wait 8 seconds for the “clock” to be “pressed”, i.e. for the referee to count down to zero, so in effect his opponent would now have 18 seconds instead of 10 to consider his next move.

Bill Smythe

[jjamesge1]

@Smythe Dakota

@relyea

… Rapid transit chess. Now, of course, we could replicate this by doing G 1 second;d5 or d10. …

This replication wouldn’t be quite equivalent to the original. In the original, for example, if a player moves after just 2 seconds, he would still have to wait 8 seconds for the “clock” to be “pressed”, i.e. for the referee to count down to zero, so in effect his opponent would now have 18 seconds instead of 10 to consider his next move.

Bill Smythe

I read that in a history book. I’m guessing it was popular in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. Not really sure when chess clocks came into vogue, at least not without looking it up. But at some point, chess clocks came to the scene, relegating that sort of tournament to the history books.

[bruce_leverett]

@jjamesge1

@Smythe Dakota

@relyea

… Rapid transit chess. Now, of course, we could replicate this by doing G 1 second;d5 or d10. …

This replication wouldn’t be quite equivalent to the original. In the original, for example, if a player moves after just 2 seconds, he would still have to wait 8 seconds for the “clock” to be “pressed”, i.e. for the referee to count down to zero, so in effect his opponent would now have 18 seconds instead of 10 to consider his next move.

Bill Smythe

I read that in a history book. I’m guessing it was popular in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. Not really sure when chess clocks came into vogue, at least not without looking it up. But at some point, chess clocks came to the scene, relegating that sort of tournament to the history books.

Chess clocks were introduced in the nineteenth century, rapid transit chess not until much later, maybe after World War II. I know the Pittsburgh Chess Club was holding rapid transit events when I was a teenager, though I don’t remember actually playing in one.

[Mulfish]

My father played a lot of rapid transit chess.