Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:31:46 10/21/02
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On October 21, 2002 at 14:28:23, Peter Berger wrote: >On October 21, 2002 at 12:15:23, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>a) >>since at SSDF they are testing at 120'/40 [many thanks for this great work] but >>95% of all users are (only) playing blitz games >> >An interesting statement. I wonder if it is true that 95% of the users prefer >blitz games, wouldn't it be more useful if the SSDF tested the programs at a >faster time control? Although it is true that slow time controls improve the >quality of the games, it might be a bad idea to test at time controls only a >tiny group of people use. I think that a lot of users are interested in slow time control and they may not use computers for comp-comp games. I believe that the correspondence players are interested in the program that is best in slow time control. They do not use programs for comp-comp tournament but for analyzing their games. Uri
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