I don't know - but it would allow anyone on the web to disguise their site as a <CG> page for a redirect back to themselves.

You and I both fully understand why <CG> switches a user's forum off when their subscription expires.

My question is - why can't you remember the user's settings, and when they renew automatically restore it?

But I can provide an indication here at least.

If you're asking about the broad history - then yes, players could play on, depending on which tournament.

In the early days, the adjournments were based on time - according to the allotted playing session times. If the game wasn't finished by lunch break, it would be adjourned till the evening session. If the continuation wasn't finished by the bedtime break, it would be adjourned for the special day scheduled for adjournment completion.

Not all of these adjournments involved sealed envelopes. In fact, some of the early tournaments had proscriptions against studying the adjourned position.

Aside - when I cover a tournament, and the press coverage is really good (e.g. Helms reporting), then I often record the move at which the games were adjourned, and they weren't at a fixed move.

Now, as tournament play evolved, regulations became more, well, regulated - especially when FIDE took over. Sealed moves became the norm, but the regulations still allowed players to continue till the end of the playing session.

In fact - here's the current regulations, and there's no mention of a fixed move:

<Guidelines I. Adjourned Games

I.1 Adjournment procedure:

I.1.1 If a game is not finished at the end of the time prescribed for play, the arbiter shall require the player having the move to ‘seal’ that move. The player must write his/her move in unambiguous notation on a paper scoresheet, put his/her scoresheet and that of his/her opponent in an envelope, seal the envelope and only then stop the chessclock. Until he/she has stopped the chessclock the player retains the right to change his/her sealed move. If, after being told by the arbiter to seal his/her move, the player makes a move on the chessboard he/she must write that same move on his/her scoresheet as his/her sealed move.

I.1.2 A player having the move who adjourns the game before the end of the playing session shall be considered to have sealed at the nominal time for the end of the session, and his/her remaining time shall so be recorded.

etc.>

In most cases players had spent most of their time anyway so adjournment would be move 41-42 but sometimes several more moves were made. On the other hand it could be tempting to get the game into "the workshop" via adjournment if you were not certain about the correct plan. Old game comments often mention such considerations.

I think that would be really interesting.

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