Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 15:08:52 11/11/05
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On November 11, 2005 at 18:00:09, Günther Simon wrote: >On November 11, 2005 at 17:54:20, Richard Pijl wrote: > >> >>>>I guess it's operator time. You don't see it for Deep Sjeng because this pgn was >>>>made by Deep Sjeng. >>>> >>>>Martin >>> >>>Then the operator should not never enter rapid or blitz tourneys ;) >>> >>>Guenther >> >>It's not that bad. The operator time covers the time from Sjeng playing the >>move, GCP discovering it and playing it on the board, John Verhoeven to enter it >>into the interface, reading the move, playing it on the board, and GCP to enter >>it into Sjeng. Additionally: in the opening phase the clocks are not running. >>Only when one side is out of book, the clocks are started. >> >>Richard. > >Hi Richard, > >It would be better then not to save times in the pgn files, if the clock >isn't running at all. >(BTW I counted 272 seconds for the first 13 moves) > >Guenther There is one more thing that the operators have to do: Write down the move. Some of the longer times are most certain due to some 'catch-up' in writing down the moves. During the game that doesn't cost you much time as the engines are thinking long enough, but in the opening phase the engines play immediately. And as the clocks are not running, there is no incentive to be efficient here. Most players run with a 'real' TC somewhere between 80 and 84 minutes for the game, taking 6-10 minutes of operator time. Richard.
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