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[Benjamin Teuber]

I don't think so - with a basic time x and a per-more time y you can 
freely adjust the fischer time setting to both short games and games 
where there's more time in the beginning.

Regards,
Benjamin

Antonin Lucas schrieb:
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>     (I agree that Fischer time is superior for go, but it may take a long
>     while until it gains acceptance.)
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>     Arend
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> The thing with Go is that typically moves that require long thinking 
> times are among the first hundred, i.e. fuseki and chuban. The last 
> 150 moves of a typical go games, the yose, require much less thinking 
> time for a human (but can't be done instantaneously, which is a 
> problem with sudden death : you can't play the whole yose in less than 
> three or four minutes, on a real goban).
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> Fischer timing would lead to huge amount of time being hoarded for the 
> endgame, but leave less time in the thinking intensive, more 
> interesting beginning. Pros on 8-hours game sometime spend a whole 
> hour on a single move, and reach byoyomi by move 100.
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> There is also for amateur tournaments the question of practicality : 
> canadian or byoyomi overtime allow for relatively stable game length, 
> whereas fischer time allowing time buildup might lead to much longer 
> games, making it hard to have many rounds played in a day.
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> Antonin
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