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21st Chess.com Chess960 Quick Knockouts 1201-1400 IS NOT A Dailly Tournament

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Hello_Rocinante

  The 21st Chess.com Chess960 Quick Knockouts 1201-1400 Tournament is listed as a Dailly game, but it has a 12hr per move average rule.  I argue that a day is a day, which is 24hrs.  I don't believe that you can make amendments to this world wide accepted norm of one Day equals 24 hrs.

  Games with rules like this (12hr per move average) or anything other time constraint less than a Day (24hrs.) plainly is not a Dailly Game.

  A Year is not always 365 Days and a Month is not always 30 Days, However a Week is a Week, a Day is a Day, An Hour is an Hour etc.

  If someone wishes to play a Dailly game and chooses to make moves in less time, well good for them.  How about if you post a Blitz Game Tournament and add the rule that average time per move history of the players must be at least's 30 Seconds to join then this is your rule and your Tournament and this is fine.

  The point I'm making is a Day is a Day.  If you with to exclude players in order to favor players with less than Dailly (24 hr.) average time per move history that's fine, Just Call It That.  I don't believe in "hair splitting" rules that are only designed to get around or bypass accepted Norms of standards, be it weights and measures and the like.

Martin_Stahl
Hello_Rocinante wrote:

The 21st Chess.com Chess960 Quick Knockouts 1201-1400 Tournament is listed as a Dailly game, but it has a 12hr per move average rule. I argue that a day is a day, which is 24hrs. I don't believe that you can make amendments to this world wide accepted norm of one Day equals 24 hrs.

Games with rules like this (12hr per move average) or anything other time constraint less than a Day (24hrs.) plainly is not a Dailly Game.

A Year is not always 365 Days and a Month is not always 30 Days, However a Week is a Week, a Day is a Day, An Hour is an Hour etc.

If someone wishes to play a Dailly game and chooses to make moves in less time, well good for them. How about if you post a Blitz Game Tournament and add the rule that average time per move history of the players must be at least's 30 Seconds to join then this is your rule and your Tournament and this is fine.

The point I'm making is a Day is a Day. If you with to exclude players in order to favor players with less than Dailly (24 hr.) average time per move history that's fine, Just Call It That. I don't believe in "hair splitting" rules that are only designed to get around or bypass accepted Norms of standards, be it weights and measures and the like.

It's still a daily tournament and you can take 24 hours to make any or every move.

However, the tournament wants players that move more quickly on average historically but doesn't require players to move that quickly.

Hello_Rocinante

When I try to join this tournament, I get the message  "Sorry, your average time per move is too high for this tournament."

When I play a daily game, I make my moves within 24 hrs. If you don't ... your disqualified or maybe loose that game, which I don't do.

  I understand that the tournament wants players that move more quickly on average historically other than every 24 hrs. and this is why it's not a daily game any more.

Whats going on here is they want to have a tournament under the time constraint Category of "Daily Game" but then add further historical time constraints of less an every 24 hours per move average to join the tournament. This is simply a clever way to not allow everyone to join this Tournament. Your basically able to use this Device to claim as being a daily game while "denying" (term used loosely) ALL daily game players that are in this rating range to join and play equally.

Again a Daily game is a Daily game.

How about the next Chess.com Rapid or Blitz Tournament that is played, we should only allow the players with a historically average time per move of a Bullet or better yet hyper bullet time constraints Categories to join.

This would allow the only the fastest players to compete with each other in all timed categories and keep those others out, I'm sure this would appeal the masses too. For an individual or club sanctioned tournament using these kind of Devices is one thing I guess. But even though Chess.com is a private company and will do what it wants, I respect Chess.Com and would expect it would not sanction its own tournaments using such devices which have but one purpose.

The ratings and time constraints of the standard Categories are enough for the average of the masses on this site.

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