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(Message started by: knarl on Sep 8^th, 2007, 2:57am)

Title: time control clock
Post by knarl on Sep 8^th, 2007, 2:57am

Gday Guys,

Just wondering if anyone uses a time control clock of any sort when they play arimaa on a physical board?

I'm not a chess player and I wrongly assumed that arimaa used some sort of chess time control, but when I looked into getting a clock to go with an arimaa set I'm making, I was disappointed by the rudimentary chess clocks out there.

Cheers,
knarl.

Title: Re: time control clock
Post by The_Jeh on Sep 8^th, 2007, 9:41am

The time control is arbitrary. You can certainly use rudimentary chess clocks if you wish. I'm sure if you look hard enough you can find a digital clock that can support all the time controls on this site.

Title: Re: time control clock
Post by IdahoEv on Sep 8^th, 2007, 10:00am

We didn't use clocks at the live tournament I ran last weekend. I was worried that some of the games might go super-long as a result, but the longest one was only an hour.