Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:31:29 01/13/00
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On January 13, 2000 at 05:45:33, Graham Laight wrote: >On January 12, 2000 at 16:37:02, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On January 12, 2000 at 12:27:07, Jari Huikari wrote: >> >>>On January 12, 2000 at 12:08:33, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>>>But against humans moving quickly definitely is good. you get only >>>>in troubles against class A players and above, who usual feel the >>>>psychological need to directly react a lot less. >>>> >>>>but for anything under that level, i'm very sure that moving directly >>>>is putting psychological a lot pressure on the opponent, till they get >>>>used to it. >>> >>>I may remember this wrong, but I have an image that DB in some game >>>agains Kasparov didn't use all the thinking time allowed, but tried >>>to put Kasparov into troubles partly by moving fast? >>> >>>Do you think that thinking on opponents time benefits a human more than >>>a computer? How much stronger is a program in long game with permanent >>>brain than without it? I'd think that PB means much more in Blitz. >>> >>> Jari >> >>Please don't invent Don Quichot stories about Deep Blue. >>Kasparov writes down time management just like a lot of players >>when he annotates moves (i do that too). Game 6 notation >>by kasparov was published in icca. It showed *exactly* 3 minutes a move, >>and about 20 to 30 seconds operator time. >> >>Vincent > >I remember discussing this in a thread before the '97 DB v GK. A consensus >developed that DB should move quickly, since more thinking time would give it >relatively little move improvement, but the speed would lower GKs ELO because he >would not have time to think on the opponent's time. > >In the event, this is what happened. DB made most of its moves in under 1 >minute. The longest think it had was seven minutes. The strategy worked - GK had >time difficulties in some of the games, and consequently made weaker moves than >usual. Source: Daniel King's book about the match. DB would search 8 ply at most if it had to move within a few seconds. >-g
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