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Subject: Re: Blitz Tourney 5/3 40 rounds Update

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 14:36:51 11/02/00

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On November 02, 2000 at 01:14:36, Chessfun wrote:

>On November 02, 2000 at 00:35:14, pavel wrote:
>
>>On November 01
>>>
>>>
>>>Current
>>>Tiger 13.0      138.5/240
>>>Gambit 1.0      113.0/200
>>>Fritz 6a        112.5/200
>>>Junior 6a        88.0/200
>>>Hiarcs 7.32      87.5/200
>>>Shredder 4.0     85.5/200
>>>Gandalf 432f     15.0/40
>>>Nimzo 8             0/0
>>>
>>>Sarah.
>>
>>nice results,
>>but what I dont understand is that you are using such 'fine' and interesting
>>programs and have two computers, dont you think its better to spend the
>>resources and time on something more interesting? (ie, long time control games).
>
>
>Typically if you look at the games on my website I use longer time controls.
>It is much more rare for me to play a tourney at these time controls.
>I choose 5 3 as it seems to be the most popular internet time control plus with
>moving I wasn't happy about starting a long time control tourney first.
>As I said in my first post on this tourney, at the conclusion of 5 3 I will run
>a 40/40 and as I repeated yesterday I think it will be 10 rounds.
>
>Also any number of things are of interest, there are some computer users that
>only use there programs at blitz time controls. And to be honest I run my
>tourneys for the sole enjoyment of myself alone, I post here simply to allow
>others if they are interested to comment and or share knowledge. I was going to
>stop posting the scores of this current 5 3 as it seems to be of little interest
>to others at the present time, although for myself it has interest as I like to
>compare blitz results to standard to see if there are any relationships.
>
>Sarah.
Hi!

Please, continue with your updates, I and many others find it very interesting!
Especially now with the new programs Tiger and Gandalf!

I really hope we should have the opportunity to test the Tigers and Century on
tournament-time control!

Bertil



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