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A sentence in your insightful blog post that jumped out at me was: "Have positive encounters with humans and many more." One of my favorite things about chess clubs is enjoyable socializing; indeed, t…

@gilbert Certainly considerations of programming (which I don't understand) are important. Delay is widely used in some OTB chess cultures (it is in the US), but you have probably explained why this f…

@heallan yes, that's a good way to describe the delay function.

Many of my OTB tournaments use a delay of 5 seconds, which I think helps tournament organizers know when all the games in a round are likely to end. The way the delay works is that when my opponent hi…

@SayChessClassical: One way to vote with our eyeballs is to play classical time control, over the board chess. Online chess websites allowed me to return to chess at the height of the pandemic after a…

Ono, thanks for the blog post. I have recently returned to OTB chess. I played a little in my late 20s, early 30s, enough to get a provisional USCF rating, and now after a year and a half of playing o…