Kevin, See Ian Kingstons previous comments re the increment.Kevin Thurlow wrote:"I did notice that Dave Pardoe mentioned they were playing with an increment, therefore they cannot stop notating"
I believe that if the increment is at least 30 seconds you have to continue recording each move.
I have reminded players in tournaments (with traditional time-controls), who have stopped recording, "You must record until you have less than 5 minutes left", and then they try to record when they have 5 seconds left. Players do get confused...
Some interesting points raised, but it doesnt really address the core issue.
We are playing to reach a certain number of moves by a times control.
It is simply not sensible therefore to use `time` as the key determining factor. It has got to be `Number of moves` that is the primary driver. Some very clear way of showing this, and enabling adjustments if necessary, seems to be needed before these clocks can be regarded as satisfactory, in my view.
The analogue clocks, although not perfect, give that essential check point.
For any number of reasons a player can misrecord his moves, including missing out moves.
It is therefore essential to the integrity of the process that, when the required moves are reached, the clocks are reset, and the due time credit added at that point.
This is the only way to ensure that players have definate confirmation that they have made the required moves, without actually having to find out by `losing on time`....which is completely stupid, in my view.
It is simply not acceptable, in my view, to allow this situation to stand. Players are always going to be left wondering if they`ve `missed something`, until a time control tells them `they have`, and they`ve lost...??
Totally bonkers.....
And its not helped by the variations of `clock programming`. For instance, my only previous digital clock experience was just a few weeks ago, and the clock did automatically reset at the first time control, as far as I recollect.
You must have a consistant process, and one that does not leave you trying to guess whether you are within limits or not.