Bought in bulk, the cheapest clocks I can find are about $15. Further up the food chain, there are $50-100 clocks with lots of features. I bought the very basic digital Saitek Competition Game Clock for just under $30 US. LetвЂ™s start there because itвЂ™s as good a place to start as do-rei-mi. However, if nothing else, I am a pragmatist who believes in trying something out before dismissing it. IвЂ™ve always been opposed to the idea of chess clocks. I guess thatвЂ™s what people want implemented in cardboardland. If you run out of time on your clock, you automatically lose the match. Your clock stops and their clock starts to run down. Every time you click вЂњOk,вЂќВќ (or press F2) priority is passed to your opponent. The MTGO clock is a marvelously designed toy that sets an unreasonable standard for us cardboard folk. MTGO (Magic Online) uses a chess clock style timer, and is probably the number one reason that many players think such a thing would be possible in cardboard Magic. The two timers are never running at the same time and hitting the clock (or more correctly a button on top of the clock) will switch whose clock is running down. Very briefly, a chess clock is a device that can count down two separate times. The forums also give rise to the clarion call for the chess clock.

The forums for these articles bring suggestions to call a Judge much earlier in the match as soon as you think the pace of play is too slow. вЂњIf only I had one more turn, I would have won,вЂќВќ being the most common lament.

The subject of chess clocks rears its ugly head every time someone writes a tournament report about getting screwed out of winning a match due to a slow opponent. I think I may have thought it up over two years ago, and IвЂ™ve certainly been talking about it since last year. This article has been a long time coming.

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