Duration: extended pieces and one unexpected outcome

[Phil Morton]

Background: during the development phase of system 50:50 the pieces have been shorter rather than longer: example 15 minutes and less.

1 example of a longer piece brought some positive feedback. This example was a piece of 30 minutes in duration.
Some players reported that, how can I sumarise this, the longer piece brings a more relaxed mood there is less urgency to fulfill the tacet/freeplay ratio, maybe call this, less clock watching, maybe less pressure on judgements & decisions.

this maybe should be carried forward.
new players or ensembles, once use to the operation of the System 50;50 chess clocks, may find the longer pieces a softer introduction.

The above 30 minutes piece maybe a one off: too small a sample.

to be continued
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