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| page 11 of 11; games 251-256 of 256 |
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Oct-09-22
 | | Stonehenge: The following games do *not* belong to this tournament: (other databases do have them as from the New York Open), maybe there are more: New York (1992). |
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| Oct-09-22 | | stone free or die: <stone> (the original btw) - How did you come to exclude those games?
I assume you weeded them out from what <CG> included by using the USCF xtab and noting non-pairings. Is that correct?
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Oct-09-22
| | Stonehenge: Yup, correct. |
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| Oct-10-22 | | Granny O Doul: A note on lingo: "Rapids", short for "rapid transit chess", is what both the Manhattan (rest in passing) and the Marshall Chess clubs have, for decades, called their regular blitz action. The time controls have varied, from ten seconds per move in the old, old days, to g/7, to g/5, to, I think, 3/2 in modern times. I personally use the word "rapids" to denote that it took place in a tournament, while "blitz" is just fast chess; maybe not a tournament and maybe not equal time for each player. Of the two best-represented players in the not-the-New York Open games in Stonehenge's link, Henley has long been a contributor of rapids games to various chess publications, while Zilbermintz has been as dutiful preserving his blitz games, especially in the gambit openings he favors. |
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| Oct-10-22 | | stone free or die: Thanks for the confirmation <stone>. * * * * *
<Granny> weren't the original transit games played without every board having a clock? I thought there was a style of rapid game where there was a referee calling out the time throughout the game. The players had to move at these regular intervals. This allowed a large number of simultaneous rapid games to be played when there weren't enough clocks to go around. Am I mistaken in this impression?
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| Oct-11-22 | | ghost5: Yes, rapid transit has been around for some time (e.g. https://spectatorarchive.library.co...). Reuben Fine was fearsome at 10 second/move rapid transit, which was the preferred format for early US Speed Championships, IIRC. I'd have to dig through the old Chess Life/Chess Review PDFs for specific citations. I suspect older clocks were not meant to take the pounding of blitz play, unlike the BHB models we used. Those things were incredibly robust. |
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| Jul-04-23 | | Granny O Doul: Before my time but I believe they used clocks with a bell that rang after ten seconds, and maybe another bell rang after three more seconds? I understand that some players regularly skated very close to the edge, knowing the referees were reluctant to forfeit on border-line calls. Later, after five-minute chess had taken over, they did manufacture special clocks just for blitz, on which the hand pointed straight down at the start of a five-minute game, and so moved at six times the speed of a regular clock. As I remember, these clocks were also about six times as likely to break. |
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Jul-04-23
 | | paulalbert: Many years ago I played at the Manhattan in a rapid transit tournament. They had a loud buzzer that sounded every ten seconds. It sometimes became confusing when players moved well before the 10 second buzzer went off, particularly in the opening stage when both players banged out the first few moves. I still have my original mechanical chess clock ( bought about 70 years ago ) that had an opening for a small battery. It could be set so a buzzer went off either at 5 seconds or 10 seconds intervals for rapid transit play. |
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