Comments on: You Got Turn-Based Chocolate In My Real-Time Peanut Butter

By: John Murphy

John Murphy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:28:00 +0000

Maybe underwater speed chess would better get at what I was thinking: turns exist, but the real world goes on and exerts its own pressures. Or chess boxing...

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:58:00 +0000

All tournament chess has time limits. It's total time though. You and your opponent each have 30 mins. If you use all your time up and your opponent has time left...you lose.

Speed chess is the same rationale. You have a limit, just less total time. Say 5 minutes. Gives very little time per move.

But chess is probably not the best analogy here.

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By: Rubes

Rubes — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:47:00 +0000

Hmm, good question. I admit I never really understood much about speed chess; best I can tell from the information out there, it still sounds like a purely turn-based game. It just appears that there is a limit on the aggregate time a player can spend on the process of taking his turns. But the game, in essence, still progresses discretely upon the completion of each turn.

I know next to nothing about speed chess, though, so I could easily be wrong.

By: John Murphy

John Murphy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:37:00 +0000

The question is, can a game really be both at the same time?

Speed Chess?