3+2 Pool

Posted: 22 December 2015 03:06 PM Administrator Total Posts: 378 Joined 2011-11-18 ICC is considering to change the 3 0 pool into a 3 2 pool. This is to say three minutes plus 2-second increment.

3+2 is the official FIDE time control, and we have seen requests about ICC having such a pool. But, before we make any change, we’d like to hear from you. Your feedback is important to us, and we will decide depending on it. Feel free to give us your feedback posting on this thread, and voting!

Posted: 22 December 2015 04:55 PM Member Total Posts: 17 Joined 2014-11-06 What would be ideal is a 3 0 and 3 2 but both take you to the same pool, so in this pool there could be 2 lots of players. I sometimes play 3 0 as I don’t have time for anything else.

Posted: 22 December 2015 09:14 PM Member Total Posts: 1 Joined 2015-12-22 Why is the 3-minute pool getting axed for the 3+2 pool and not the 5-minute pool? This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Wouldn’t this just split the blitz player-base while at the same time just simply take something away from bullet players? I would still prefer a 3+2 pool regardless of what gets replaced though. I just don’t see a situation where I would play in both the 3+2 and 5+0 pools, where as I could see myself playing in both the 3+0 and 3+2 pools.

Posted: 22 December 2015 11:18 PM Member Total Posts: 1 Joined 2015-10-16 If ICC removes the 3min pool and change it to 3+2 I am considering quitting ICC.

Posted: 23 December 2015 01:35 PM Member Total Posts: 1 Joined 2015-06-01 3 2 is a good pool. it’s a great time control. it’s blitz but helps avoid impulsive errors with the small increment

Posted: 23 December 2015 02:20 PM Member Total Posts: 1 Joined 2015-01-04 3 0 gives you almost no time to think; also, 3 2 is the FIDE time control and also produces much greater quality chess than just trying to flag your opponent from the beginning of the game.

Posted: 23 December 2015 04:16 PM Member Total Posts: 3 Joined 2015-12-19 This is a tricky one because I’ve heard people say both that they would join or come back to the ICC if there were a 3+2 pool and similarly I have heard people say they would leave. I would say that in an ideal world, the best solution would be to increase the number of players on the server by tempting folk to the ICC with chocolate, beer and tobacco*, so all time controls can co-exist with sufficient players in the pools, including 5+5 and 25+10. (This is probably easier said than done). *or free server time? Mailshot to all chess federations?

Posted: 24 December 2015 08:26 AM Member Total Posts: 1 Joined 2014-11-06 I think this is a welcome move. Please shift to 3 + 2 Pool.

Posted: 24 December 2015 12:19 PM Member Total Posts: 1 Joined 2015-12-24 3+2 is like the classical 5-m, so no point in introducing it, 3-m is fine as intermediate between bullet and the classical blitz

Posted: 26 December 2015 06:53 AM Member Total Posts: 1 Joined 2015-08-12 Keep 3-0 pool and create a new 3-2 pool

Posted: 26 December 2015 12:16 PM Member Total Posts: 1 Joined 2015-04-10 agree with post #9

Posted: 27 December 2015 08:22 AM Member Total Posts: 1 Joined 2014-11-21 It will make the game to long for my interest. If I wanted a longer game I would play in the five minute pool. Maybe you can change the timing for tournament only.

Posted: 28 December 2015 10:22 AM Member Total Posts: 1 Joined 2015-12-28 As other have said, 3+2 seems like a natural placement for 5+0 not 3+0. I’d very much like 3+2 either way, but replacing 5+0 with it makes more sense to me.

Posted: 29 December 2015 07:27 PM Member Total Posts: 17 Joined 2014-11-06 Possibly 1 of the better suggestions (if we can’t have both) is to replace the 5-min pool with a 3 2 pool. This makes allowances for those who don’t have time for more than 1 quick game and for those who do (in the pools).

Posted: 30 December 2015 12:18 PM Member Total Posts: 1 Joined 2014-11-06 I prefer 3 2 insteade of 3 0!