Author: Peter Berger
Date: 11:36:00 10/21/02
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On October 21, 2002 at 14:31:46, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I agree - but for this group the SSDF results might be of little interest, too, because they are much too fast. Here results in complicated testsuites for long time searches might be much more interesting. I have no strong opinion on this topic, but if most users are either interested in long term analysis with engines or in comp-comp matches at blitz time control the SSDF might miss the interest of most users IMHO. Peter
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