This incredibly informative YouTube video by @ShelbyLohrman may be helpful. Just follow along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_hJn7NsvY
This incredibly informative YouTube video by @ShelbyLohrman may be helpful. Just follow along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_hJn7NsvY
Apologies if this is a dumb question. I am very new to tournament chess, but am hoping to play a rated OTB game tonight. I have a Chronos GX clock which I have historically used for simple blitz games, and it's been great. But I am trying to figure out how to set it for this tournament, and am at a loss. I am wondering if someone here can help me.
This is the description provided by the club of what the clock is supposed to be set to:
"The Ladder time control is 30/90, SD/30, +30. This is a typical, slow, timed game where
each player gets 90 minutes to play the first 30 moves, then an extra 30 minutes added to their remaining time for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment every move. Unused increment time doesn’t evaporate as with delay – it is added to your total remaining time on each move. So, with a few quick moves you can grow time on your clock."
1. First, and probably easiest solution, is if this is one of the Chronos presets. Since the tournament description describes this time control as common, I'm hoping that's the case. But for the life of me I can't find a listing of what the presets for this clock *are* -- all I can find is that there are 12 of them. The manual makes the first 4 presets easy to understand, but the other 8 are very confusing to me (They are listed as tn-1, tn-2, etc.). So -- can someone tell me if this time control is a factory preset, and if so, which one it is?
2. If it's not a preset, I'm hoping someone can direct me as to how to set this time control myself. I have been tinkering with it but I can not figure out how to make the 30-move counter work on the custom slots. When I try to select a preset, I can make it 90 minutes, and I can set a 30-second increment, but nothing ever pops up giving me an offer to set a move counter.
Thank you, in advance, for any help you can provide.