Just wanting to ask if it's ever possible for arena timing to be switched to byoyomi with common times eg 20 or 30sec as opposed to fixed clock. Think potentially would allow for greater late-game outplay (eg managed to enter king and subsequently slowly checkmate opponent) and also generally more in accordance with common shogi formats.
Byoyomi for arena
Yes it is possible while creating an arena.
It’s the clock byoyomi settings.
He's not talking about creating an arena, but the existing arenas that are available, like the Rapid 10|0 arena with no byoyomi. If it were to have byoyomi , it would lead to more interesting endgames!
If not then it's no different than just playing Shogi Wars on Lishogi xD
Yup was just wondering about byoyomi for existing arenas.
To be fair fixed time games and byoyomi games can be quite different in their approach with the former being really sensitive on time spent and the latter potentially making time control bit less stressful as long as one can manage making good plays in 20 - 30 sec. I thought shogi late game can involve a lot more calculation and introduction of byoyomi probably would make late games in arena more challenging and interesting.
But I can appreciate if folks want to keep fixed time control for existing arena games since those formats can be quite different. From a game design perspective the berzerk function would defo be rendered a lot less impactful if byoyomi were to be introduced.
Was just wondering this cause for my previous arena games I can definitely see the possibility of opponent getting a comeback win over me (as opposed to time-out) if they had byoyomi.
Oh... really sorry for the misconception from my side.
No worries - my bad for not being specific at the beginning :D
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