Agree.

Why does "Canadian" timing exist in Go at all? The only reason I know of is because that is the only timing used by IGS for many years. And the only reason I know of that IGS used it, is because IGS was largely an adaptation of ICS, the old internet chess server.

Or were tournaments using "Canadian" time before IGS came along? And if so why? And was it called "Canadian" back then?

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All of your questions are answered in this interesting read: http://pages.infinit.net/steven/byoyomi.htm

It is the only form of overtime used in British over the board tournaments.

I think one reason why canadian time is most used in real-board games is simply because it was the only practical way to deal with byoyomi when there were no digital-clocks around. In germany there are still many many chessclocks used in rl-tournaments, therefore the canadian byoyomi is the prevalent one.

Sign me up.

Wow, where do you find this stuff? It really is an interesting read and seems to settle everything. Although this bit:


... I completely disagree with.

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Why? Can you think of a simpler, more elegant system of monitoring overtime when you have no digital clocks available?

Sign me up!

Get some digital clocks is simpler.


; )

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Just one minor correction: the german internet bundesliga uses 60 & 15/5, not 20/5.

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The year is 1980. Good luck getting a digital clock

I don't like time systems that make me spend what little time I have doing division in my head...

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Well, one thing I never understood is that unused time is discarded. It just makes the players unnecessarily prolong the game.

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I would be interested...

(This thread finally made me register for Life in 19x19 --- I used to post on GD as Dima, but didn't have the time lately.)

Count me in. And welcome, Dima!

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You can count me in, Graham... The only issue I foresee are the time difference but let's give it a try.

Another tournament. Cool. I'm in

I feel sure the BGA will be delighted if you want to pay to replace the 30 mechanical clocks I'm currently storing (don't step anywhere in my room! One floorboard moves, half the damned clocks start ticking again ..!), plus the same number a couple of times over that other people are storing, with digital clocks ...!

But I'm still not sure it qualifies as "simpler".

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count me in.

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Sounds fun. Count me in.