Author: Albert Silver
Date: 22:26:40 06/02/00
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On June 02, 2000 at 17:52:39, Frank Wolf wrote:
>My time is valuable, and the last thing I want to do is to sit there for long
>periods of time waiting for my chess program to make a move when I have it set
>to play Rated games at 2000 ELO. My clock and time use are important for
>playing rated games, the computer's (when set to ELO 2000) are not! I play slow
>time control tournament games, and the less than logical features of Rated Game
>in F6a and J6a have forced me to remove them and play with the more logical F6
>and J6. Is the computer's ability to simulate the time use of a human opponent
>worth the two and a half hours of my time (waiting to it to move)per game? No!
>The programmers at chessbase missed this one!
Why not set shorter time controls for the computer?
Albert Silver
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