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Subject: Re: Time usage

Author: Don Dailey

Date: 20:10:45 12/08/97

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>interesting.  :)  I used 30 until about 3 months ago, but had too many
>people pointing out that in sudden death games (which I play a
>tremendous
>number of on ICC) I was ending up with too much time.  25 doesn't seem
>too bad either...  and, in reality, it might could go a little lower,
>since
>I take pains to not get too far behind on time as well..

Hi Bob,

I wrote a little program to look at the time distributions by move
number of using 1/30 vs 1/25.   Based on this,  I think 1/25 does
make more sense, especially with move predictions and such.

This chart assumes the Dutch time control of game in 90 minutes.
Surprising to me is that at move 40, there is only a small difference
in the two numbers.

-- Don


 MOVE    1/30       1/25
 ----  ------     ------
   1    180.0      216.0
   2    174.0	   207.4
   3    168.2	   199.1
   4    162.6	   191.1
   5    157.2	   183.5
  10    132.7	   149.6
  15    112.0	   122.0
  20     94.5	    99.5
  25     79.8	    81.1
  30     67.3	    66.1
  35     56.8	    53.9
  40     48.0	    44.0
  45     40.5	    35.8
  50     34.2	    29.2
  55     28.9	    23.8
  60     24.4	    19.4
  65     20.6	    15.8
  70     17.4	    12.9
  75     14.6	    10.5
  80     12.4	     8.6
  85     10.4	     7.0
  90      8.8	     5.7
  95      7.4	     4.7
 100      6.3	     3.8




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