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Game Courier User's Guide. How to play games with the CV Play-by-Mail system.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Tue, Feb 22, 2011 06:46 AM UTC:

I do not see description of Maximum Time and Minimum Time fields.

Also, are any of the time controls allowed to be negative? I would suggest the following:

  • Pace time and and pace moves should not be negative.
  • If spare time is negative, then your initial reserve time is negative (which requires you to accumulate more bonus/extra before you actually have any spare time), and the grace time must be set positive (otherwise you will lose immediately).
  • Grace time should not be negative.
  • If extra time is negative, then there is a time penalty after every move.
  • If bonus time is negative, then there is a penalty for moving too quickly.
  • Bonus period should not be negative.