[POLL] Shorten the 5 minute disconnection timer

OGS Development
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Maybe it would be good to have the possibility to set the disconnection timer in the game settings when you create a challenge. So the opponent can see what are the ruels for the games. So you can set short times for fast games and more time for long games.

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Use Fisher as the default with a reasonable upper bound (2 or 3 min for slow, 0.5 or 1 min for fast games).

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Fisher is many times mentioned as the solution but Fisher has his own constraints that someone may not like, like a regular flow of moves in a limited time for each. You may like to have sometimes more time for 1 move.

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BTW it’s Fischer, not Fisher (the spelling mistake is on the OGS site too).

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It is? I’ll take a look and fix it up.

Edit: could you please show me where on the site it says “fisher”? A search of the codebase says there shouldn’t be any.

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Sorry I was confusing with another mistake. The letter F should be capitalized, but I’ve seen “fischer” on the OGS site.

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I’ve also seen byo-yomi lower case too. I’m not sure that’s as big of an issue :thinking: feels more subjective

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The term “Fischer” comes from the chess player Bobby Fischer. The capital is needed. You don’t write “ke jie” or “shin jinseo”.

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Just because the time cotrol is named after him, doesn’t make it a direct reference to the person.

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Compare with the Dirac distribution. You can’t write “the dirac distribution”.

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Would you capitalise Einsteinium and not helium?

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Einsteinium is not the family name of Albert.

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Fine, would you capitalise Ford and not holden or honda?

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I’d capitalize all three.

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Do you capitalise shrapnel, casanova, or boycott? They’re all named after people.

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These are nouns or verbs. Do you have examples of names of people that are used as adjectives and which are usually not capitalized?

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Tattersall plaid.

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OK. I’ve never heard of that before. Perhaps that case is a bit different. I don’t think Mr Tattersall invented the plaid? Anyway I don’t want to argue much more, you can leave “fischer” if you like. It just feels as wrong to me as “fourier transform” or “maxwell equation”.

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I was previously under the impression that the timing was only named after Bobby. I have since discovered he patented it. I may be coming around to your view :sweat_smile:

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Abel for instance has the adjective abelian that’s used in groups in mathematics, and that’s not normally capitalised.

I think similarly in a lot of mathematics texts euclidean after Euclid won’t be captialised.

Whether it should be capitalised can be up for debate. I think when something is being used so frequently in a certain context like euclidean distance, norm etc that really the attribution isn’t the actual point or focus, then probably it would just be disruptive to keep capitalising the word.

That’s probably more of a gut feeling than a formal rule, and probably dictionaries want to try to be consistent, even though language is just full of inconsistencies.

I probably would in informal settings :slight_smile:

I don’t really mind whether Fischer is written as fischer, but it should probably be consistent anyway.

I wonder did he really patent the notion of increment time, or just its implementation in the form of a chess clock.

We could just rename it to increment :slight_smile: