My personal take: there should be more of them.
A lot of us like increment. It enables you to manage your time better as the longer the game lasts the more total time you have, so don't have to worry so much about not having time later to finish the game.
Of course it means a game can go on indefinitely so others may be waiting for you to finish your game if it's a swiss (and there are more swiss tournaments with increment than there are arenas where you don't need to wait for others to finish).
An alternative to increment is "delay". lichess doesn't have that as an option but it's quite good. The difference between increment and delay is that with increment you get the time added on at the end of each move, no matter how long it took. With delay, time is never added onto your clock, but the delay is the period before any time comes off your clock, e.g. 5 minutes with 5 seconds delay means any move you play within 5 seconds does not take time off your clock, and if you take 10 seconds over a move, 5 seconds comes off your clock.
Does increment or delay mean that games will last forever (or a very long time anyway). Not likely and if anything you may find more of a willingness to accept dead=draw positions rather than playing on hoping to flag the opponent, whilst the other has to hope to invoke the 50 move rule.
Of course it means a game can go on indefinitely so others may be waiting for you to finish your game if it's a swiss (and there are more swiss tournaments with increment than there are arenas where you don't need to wait for others to finish).
An alternative to increment is "delay". lichess doesn't have that as an option but it's quite good. The difference between increment and delay is that with increment you get the time added on at the end of each move, no matter how long it took. With delay, time is never added onto your clock, but the delay is the period before any time comes off your clock, e.g. 5 minutes with 5 seconds delay means any move you play within 5 seconds does not take time off your clock, and if you take 10 seconds over a move, 5 seconds comes off your clock.
Does increment or delay mean that games will last forever (or a very long time anyway). Not likely and if anything you may find more of a willingness to accept dead=draw positions rather than playing on hoping to flag the opponent, whilst the other has to hope to invoke the 50 move rule.
lichess.org/tournament/YllBcPIP
Tournament with incrmeent played today. Check it out because there is a match there every week and join one of the teams.
Some of the teams also hold their own tournaments of which some have increment.
Tournament with incrmeent played today. Check it out because there is a match there every week and join one of the teams.
Some of the teams also hold their own tournaments of which some have increment.
@ThEkInGoFcHeSs_2021 said in #1:
> how good is to have tournaments with increment? what is your opinion?
> i like increment tournaments
Very good for improvement.
> how good is to have tournaments with increment? what is your opinion?
> i like increment tournaments
Very good for improvement.
Flagging is a part of chess and should always be there... There should be hope for the losing team to play along and not resign as soon as they lose material/position
One already has stalemate to hope for
I personally think that it is good for improvement and puts you under strains of loss or a win. But I guess it is more of an opinion as some people would choose otherwise.
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