"Guy Macon" http://www.guymacon.com/ wrote in message
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David Richerby wrote:

Guy Macon http://www.guymacon.com/ wrote:

For comparison, let's start with a 40/120, D/60 time control with a
USCF-Style delay of 5 seconds.

Replace the USCF-style the delay with a Fischer increment (meaning 5
seconds are added to your clock when you hit the button rather than
the clock waiting 5 seconds before starting to count down -- the
difference being that with a Fischer delay you can gain time by
moving quickly).

Your `USCF-style delay' is usually credited to David Bronstein, rather
than the USCF.

You are correct. I apologize; in my haste I mentally confused
the three major methods (Fischer, Bronstein, FIDE) and somehow
managed to insert the term "USCF" in there. Sorry about that.

4. There is also Kasparov delay, which doesn't add time, but doesn't count
time for X seconds. Phil Innes

http://www.dgtprojects.com/clock_tim....htm#bronstein

Now replace the 40/120, D/60 with SD/10 or SD/20, but with the
Fischer delay set to 3 minutes.

Are people not already doing this? Starting with only twenty minutes
on the clock seems a bit short for serious games, even with a
three-minute increment, but the basic idea is very sound.

This, of course, wouldn't make matches end by the next round, but
when playing a club game or a game at work, it would avoid the
rather artificial "race until the time control changes then relax"
effect.

At work, I don't have time for six-hour games of chess!

I once did nothing but play chess for over a week while sitting
in the bunker next to a launchpad as the countdown got stopped
or reset multiple times. Got the bird into orbit at the end,
though!