Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 23:01:48 05/05/00
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On May 06, 2000 at 01:09:12, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Right. We need Komputer Korner back! No volunteers for a KK-III cup? Ed
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