Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:12:59 10/20/00
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On October 20, 2000 at 13:56:33, Christophe Theron wrote: <snipped> >Do you want some evidence that in EVERY game of chess that is played EVERY >opponent plays very inaccurately? > >Do the following experiment: take your favorite chess program, set it to play 40 >moves in 2 hours. Then take the same program, and set it to play 40 moves in 4 >hours. > >Now let the two play against each other. The one that has more time will beat >the other one very easily. This experiment does not prove that there are mistakes in every game of chess. I believe that there are openings when the 2 hours/40 move is not going to do mistakes when the time control of the oponnent is not important. There are cases when the opening leads to a draw by perpetual check or to a simple draw in the endgame and giving one of the sides more time is not going to change the result. Cases when the opening book is leading to a win for one side when more time cannot help are probably more rare but can also happen. I believe that 2 hours/40 moves will get at least 10% against the same program when the time control is 2000 hours/40 moves because of this reason. Uri
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