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Subject: Re: DIEP in WMCCC2000 London - long story

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:04:53 08/29/00

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On August 29, 2000 at 22:12:27, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 29, 2000 at 22:01:57, Robert Hyatt wrote:
><snipped>
>>It should not happen.  in game/120, it will use about 1/25th of the total time
>>for the first move, 1/25th of the time remaining for the next move, etc.
>
>If this decision is correct then in 60 moves/120 minutes+30 minutes/game you
>should also use more than 1/25 of the total time for the first move because 60
>moves/120 minutes+30 minutes/game is slower time control than 120 minutes/game
>so you should use more time.
>
>Uri


It should do that.  As I said, the _least_ it should use is 120/60 = 2 minutes.
That is a minimum time limit that it should never drop below.  It should use
significantly more.  Why didn't it?  I don't know yet.



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