Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:37:58 10/20/00
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On October 20, 2000 at 14:12:59, Uri Blass wrote:
>On October 20, 2000 at 13:56:33, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
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>>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
Which is not refuting my point in any way.
You are just pointing out that perfect games are an EXCEPTION.
And I agree.
Christophe
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