No-bid Armageddon is stoopid

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How stoopid. :laughing:
Every player in the world would have chosen Black with these preset time amounts.
Without bidding, Armageddon is an unfair work-around to the suffocatingly high 60% draw rate among elite grandmasters.

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Armageddon is stoopid, period.