Player stops keeping score & has more than 5 minutes left ?

[Steve_Immitt]

@fantasychess

I personally don’t see the USCF version as superior, just a different version that also works and in their mind is fairer. I also don’t know of any other country that has changed the FIDE rule, which they can freely do a la USCF, to make it the same as the USCF version.

It’s one less source of scorekeeping disputes (“my opponent’s not writnig and he has six minutes left”).

Also, the USCF was (regular) rating sudden death games before FIDE; I believe both the original USCF rule and the current one preceeded FIDE’s rule.

[GeneM]

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So many clock-caused problems like this vaporize away if the time-control uses a larger time-increment per move, from move 1:

G/15 +30sec

There ought to be two rule books, one for all the clock issues, and the other for everything else.
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[timjust]

@GeneM

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So many clock-caused problems like this vaporize away if the time-control uses a larger time-increment per move, from move 1:

G/15 +30sec

There ought to be two rule books, one for all the clock issues, and the other for everything else.
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You will need more than two; i.e., the scholastic people have their own set of special rules. I seem to recall that Bill Hall had a similar idea (different rulebooks aimed at a specific nook) in one of my conversations with him. Perhaps your idea would make a good delegate’s motion?

Tim