I’m helping organise a tournament for kids that’s coming up soon. We have 12 players signed up and we have two hours for the whole tournament. The games will be 10 minutes no increment. I have only just realised that following the FIDE rules for determining when a timeout is a draw could be quite time consuming. Therefore I think I will need to use a simpler rule. Here are two possibilities that have occurred to me:
1. The player who times out loses regardless of material.
2. The player who times out loses unless their opponent has only a king, a king and bishop or a king and knight (in which case the game is a draw).
I was wondering if anyone who has experience with this sort of thing could suggest which of these simple rules is better or suggest a better simple rule. I don’t believe we will have time to check if there is a possible mating sequence in situations outlined in case 2 above.
1. The player who times out loses regardless of material.
2. The player who times out loses unless their opponent has only a king, a king and bishop or a king and knight (in which case the game is a draw).
I was wondering if anyone who has experience with this sort of thing could suggest which of these simple rules is better or suggest a better simple rule. I don’t believe we will have time to check if there is a possible mating sequence in situations outlined in case 2 above.