I am returning to the game after a 9 year sabbatical. I am trying to improve my game by playing and try to play as many games as I can at one time without sacrificing my play. I will claim timeouts for games with 5+ days of timebank, as well as any tournament games, in order to free up games in my queue. It's not cheating, underhanded, wrong, or personal, it's chess. I would expect the same in return. Playing crossboard with a clock would be far less generous than the time alotted on CAW.
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