Byoyomi

Byōyomi (Japanese秒読み) is a Japanese term in the board games Go and Shogi. Byōyomi literally means " seconds count " and describes the process, traditionally a referee a player's final seconds remaining counts according to where, and thus corresponds to the countdown. Often the last few seconds are also signaled by the electronic watches.

Japanese Byōyomi

In Japanese professional games the Byōyomi consisting of a predetermined number of time periods (eg, 5 times 1 minute). These time periods are "used up ", if you think for a train longer than this time period. In a Byōyomi of 1 times 30 seconds so you have 30 seconds for each train, with a Byōyomi of 5 times 30 seconds is allowed, however, four times longer than 30 seconds to think. A player who uses his last Byōyomi period, loses on time.

Amateur tournaments in Japan usually with a fixed time limit, ie without Byoyomi played.

Use in Europe

In Western parlance, the term byo - yomi or Byoyomi the Go is often used interchangeably to injury time. To need to tournaments no referee or timekeeper for you is in Germany usually systems, which can be realized with the already usual watches type mechanical chess clocks.

To this end, the end of normal playing time a certain period is (5 minutes for example ) set on the clock and a fixed number of pieces ready set (eg, 10 stones, what the rules of the appropriate number of moves allows accordingly). Who has not used up his Byoyomi stones before the deadline, has lost the game "on time ".

If the stones are set within the time period can either be played back without direct pressure of time until after its expiry, a new Byoyomi period begins, or - in the more common variant - it immediately starts a new Byoyomi period.

With progressive Byoyomi the number of stones to be set from period to period, increases, for example 10-15-20-25 10-20-40-80 ... or ..., where the increase may also be limited to the top.

Often, players meet at the entrance of the Byoyomi their stone box ( Goke ) with the prisoners from shell, to avoid accidentally take in the tense situation a stone as usual from the can instead of the counted stock.