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World Championship Tournament 2024 starts Sep. 15th:
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10-15/16:30 Draganov: @Cacreal, I am open to take up your challenge. If we play in R3 against each other, then we can arrange an hour and play the games in blitz.

10-15/15:43 cacreal: I am happy to play my Copenhagen games against Draganov in white and black with a 1 hour total time period per player for each game at the time of his choosing. 
Live games last only 10 to 30 minutes so 2 hours a game would be generous. This would expedite what would otherwise turn into a month long + game.

10-15/10:17 Hagbard: Understandable. But the game is on the umpire's desk.
Please do your best to finish it anyway.

10-15/10:16 Draganov: Then, the game will be over by tomorrow morning.

10-15/10:15 Draganov: Another solution for quickly finishing the game would be to give us both 12 hours without added time just to finish the game.

10-15/10:12 Draganov: I am ready to play fast during the day but Alex insist on playing only during the night hours. He tried to time me out 2 times last night (playing at 2 and 4 AM) and tried to time me out three times 2 nights ago playing at (2, 4 and 6 AM). However, he is not playing Copenhagen against me during the daytime. I have 2 hours left on my time buffer and playing with this time buffer only during sleep hours is impossible or at least inconviniant for me and my family. Practically this game is not a tafl game anymore (which from playing point of view is decided on the board since I am winning) but a contest of endurance and ability to play during night time.

10-15/10:06 Hagbard: I've involved the umpire concerning this game.
Please do your best to finish the game.

10-15/09:41 Draganov: @Hagbard, could you make the protected minimum of time 8 hours and we can test it how it works? We can make adjustements in it in case the games are prolonging too much.

10-14/23:34 sqAree: Yes I wanted a protected minimum of time for years. It's not possible to go to sleep anymore otherwise. I timed out a few games in the WC also because I only had minutes of time after my opponent made their move.
That's not even related to me being a notoriously slow player. I played a lot faster than usually in this tournament, my time buffers were often higher than those of my opponents.
Sometimes I stay awake longer than usually just to play the last move of the night. And then my opponent is randomly awake at 4am and plays lol.

10-14/11:52 Hagbard: Info: Copenhagen round 3 could start any day soon at about 18 o'clock Danish time.
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