Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 05:45:50 01/14/04
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On January 14, 2004 at 03:24:10, Jouni Uski wrote: >Many testers (specially in Germany) play their test games with x basic minutes + >y seconds increment. What is the benefit of this kind of hydrid level really? >I still prefer to play x moves in y minutes . Of course reason for increment is >to make time losses almost impossible, but this is wrong way I think. If engine >loses on time it's engines own fault and should punish for that end of >discussion! With x/n You can count tournament time by estimating around 70 moves >in each game. > >Alternatively You can of course play game in x minutes but still no increment >needed. > >Jouni Engines are dumb. Humans always play with a plan. A computer will often do nothing for 10 moves because a) making progress is beyond its search depth or b) it doesn't understand the position. Its quite common to see computer games 70-80 moves long in comparison to GM games. An increment really helps there. anthony
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