On Apr 25, 10:13 am, Rich Hutnik wrote:

Bid for time? Do you mean set the clock at 6 minutes, and players bid
less to decide what side they would play? This way they players who
bids less time would pick the side (let's presume white here). Not
sure bidding more time is the right answer here.

I'm not sure how that was intended to work, either.

I know that in Go, it has been suggested that players bid for komi in
order to get black - that is, the player who offers to score the most
points over the other player to win, if he gets the first move, does
get the first move.

A bit like Contract Bridge.

I suppose the player gets White who offers the largest time advantage
to his opponent...

John Savard