Author: Amir Ban
Date: 04:22:45 08/09/98
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On August 09, 1998 at 06:59:33, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 09, 1998 at 04:49:35, Amir Ban wrote: > >>On August 08, 1998 at 19:16:57, Mark Young wrote: >> >> >>>Crafty Scored 7wins 2losses and 1 draw in the last 10 games played by IM >>>Commons.(i guess the last 10) This is a player who knows how to beat chess >>>computers, and I'm sure knows crafty as well as any player. And the games were >>>play at fairly slow time control for ICC. I find it hard to understand why you >>>think crafty is no better then 2400 at 40/2. I just can't see IM Commons playing >>>that much better at 40/2 and crafty just falling apart. I think crafty would >>>still win play IM Commons at 40/2. >>> >>> >> >>There's a huge difference between fast blitz and longer time controls. In blitz, >>those humans who are not super-human calculators (some of them are), simply >>don't have time to work things out, and it becomes a question if they are able >>to get through the game without making an elementary tactical blunder. >> >>This is not what happens in long time-controls. I played quite a few tournament >>games against masters (or above), and I remember only one game where the master >>lost because of a simple tactical error (IM Alik Gershon). Masters are not >>tactical weaklings, and they usually manage ok, even in complex situations. >> >>If you look through the games, you'll see what I mean. Game 2 is just a >>mouse-slip (this only happens on ICC), in a won position. Game 4 is an >>elementary blunder, and so on. Once you get to around 15 min/game, such idiocies >>disappear, and it becomes more like chess. >> >>Amir > > > > >Note that all of these games were played at 20 10 (20 minutes on the clock, >10 seconds added after each move.) But to call them "serious" is certainly >a misnomer... Didn't notice this before, but now that you mention this I looked again: According to the pgn the first five were 5+3, and the others 15+15, 15+3, 15+15, 20+5, 20+10. In the short 5 the score was 5-0 to crafty. In the longer 5 the score was 2.5-2.5. Seems like a definite trend. Amir
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