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Regarding the timer, Al Fine is certainly too subjective; Lutzki is quite slow, but 16-8-1 is indeed a short timer for X3DM1, not to mention the even more resource-intensive Diamond, where the game often ends in the middle of the second week, and battles in the middle of the first week can be similar to the second week in X3DM1. To clarify, or perhaps remind some, I'll explain how the chess timer works. At the beginning, you try to make moves quickly to accumulate a certain increased limit for complex moves in the game. "Elite" players do this better because they have hundreds (thousands) of pre-rehearsed moves based on templates. This also saves time later, but even those who play constantly sometimes face too many complex choices with many possible developments, where you can't just play on autopilot. So, on MT_Diamond, the stage where you accumulate the timer is practically non-existent; you immediately spend it because there are plenty of resources and actions. In X3DM1, things are a little more lenient. I think something like 18-8.15-1.30 for X3DM1 and 21-8.30-1.30 would be acceptable for Diamond, with particular attention paid to the time for battles, as there are many of them at the beginning, and this is a key moment.