Hi
I would like to run an action tournament NOT dually rated. What is the maximum time control for quick rated events only?
G 24/d5
G 25/d4
Please advise
Ernie Johnson
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See rule 5C in the US Chess rulebook, https://new.uschess.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/us-chess-rule-book-online-2026.pdf. I prefer using a time control with an increment rather than a delay.
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Specifically, @ejay, this will tell you that either G24;d5 or G25;d4 are both equivalent quick-only time controls.
I prefer using a time control with a delay rather than an increment.
Why? Delay is a poor man’s version of increment.
Delay is more predictable as no one can bank additional time.
My club’s quick quads are G/25;d3. It is an easy setting with the originally standard delay. Since we have a curfew for our Thursday evening playing site we go with delay since that is less likely than increment to end up running long. At one National HS with a 5 second delay I had a 150 move game go almost 20 minutes past the base end time (there were a couple of rulings during the game) with mutual extreme time pressure. With Increment it could have been more than30 minutes and thus finishing up less than 30 minutes before the start of the next round.
Increment allows a long game to run very long. If you have time baked into the schedule for that (next week’s US Open and Invitationals is an example) then increment is fine.
If you want, you can set the time control to G/29, d/0. If you set on having a delay value > 0, then you can plan for a delay of 3 seconds to add 3 minutes to the length of the base time and 5 seconds to add 5 minutes. If you already know these things, I like delay over add time per move.
Thank you for your input.
Ernest
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| ulmont
July 29 |
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Specifically, @ejay, this will tell you that either G24;d5 or G25;d4 are both equivalent quick-only time controls.
I prefer using a time control with a delay rather than an increment.
Thank you, Jeff, for your input.
Ernie
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| jwiewel
July 30 |
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My club’s quick quads are G/25;d3. It is an easy setting with the originally standard delay. Since we have a curfew for our Thursday evening playing site we go with delay since that is less likely than increment to end up running long. At one National HS with a 5 second delay I had a 150 move game go almost 20 minutes past the base end time (there were a couple of rulings during the game) with mutual extreme time pressure. With Increment it could have been more than30 minutes and thus finishing up less than 30 minutes before the start of the next round.
Increment allows a long game to run very long. If you have time baked into the schedule for that (next week’s US Open and Invitationals is an example) then increment is fine.
I’ve gotten to the point where playing with only a 3 second delay can make me flag even when I am mopping up a won position. I would probably do either G/24;d5 or +5. I did semi-joke that if I had no other considerations G/5;+24
I have moved to running all my regular/dual to d/10 (seems a bit more sane in time scrambles - position over clock) – I probably should have moved to increment and just post the issue with the freeze clocks at the site.
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If you take the minutes of game time and add the seconds of delay or increment, then a quick-only event has to be greater than 10 and less than 30. (Rule 5C)
Now that is the answer I was looking for. Thank you for your response and clarity.
Ernie Johnson
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If you take the minutes of game time and add the seconds of delay or increment, then a quick-only event has to be greater than 10 and less than 30. (Rule 5C)