Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 22:09:12 05/05/00
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On May 06, 2000 at 00:33:05, Peter Kappler wrote: [snip] >Hi Peter, > >Your blitz tourney idea is fine, and I would participate, but I'll be sad if it >means we won't play another slow time-control tourney until next February. > >Blitz is all we ever see on ICC. I can login right now, and play a dozen 5 3 >games in a couple of hours. In short, if you want to play a bunch of blitz, you >really don't need to organize a tournament. > >The other problem with blitz games is that I don't learn as much about how my >program is playing. Trying to keep up with the tactical ideas in these games is >hard enough at slow time controls. At blitz it's almost hopeless. Even worse, >there's not enough time to watch any other games, which is half the fun for me. > >I'm not necessarily voting for 75 10 again. I'm in favor of switching between >fast and slow time controls, but going all the way to 5 3 is a much bigger >change than I had in mind. I'd even be happy at G/30, which would be easy >enough to finish over a weekend, or even a single day if the number of rounds >was limited. > >In fact, if blitz is what you're after, we should try to get ICC to organize a >regular computer event every month (or more often). A while back, there was >some discussion here about holding a tourney every Friday or Saturday night. > >My $0.02. Indeed, blitz is a chesslike abomination invented by persons with no patience. Why not run the games at night? Just go to sleep and if something bombed, go through an arbiter to straighten it out (highly unlikely in any case). That way, you could get a good night's sleep, and play a real-live 40/2 chess game while you are not using your computer for anything else. If you must play something on the rapid side, why not run G/90 and play 4 games at night with Winboard using /mg 4 ??? That way you would have a much better chance to avoid a single bad line or some such and the tournament would produce a large volume of quality data.
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