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

Author: Chessfun

Date: 13:42:14 11/04/00

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On November 02, 2000 at 20:04:19, Chessfun wrote:

>On November 02, 2000 at 17:36:51, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
>Thanks Bertil. I hope you'll get to test them asap. How does that work anyway?
>do you wait till the manufacturer submits them? or do you decide which to test
>and contact the manufacturer?.
>
>Anyway this is probably another one of my last posts for a bit as today I
>purchased 2 Thunderbird 900 mhz chips and 2 Asus A7V motherboards + 2 350
>power supplys to upgrade my Celerons with.....sadly now I find that both my
>Celerons have onboard graphics cards and sound cards on the motherboard, this
>one a built in ethernet card that is different from the one I bought in the
>store today.....so at this point I must admit I'm lost as I kinda expected I
>would be....it just seemed like a good idea at the time. Anyway now I have the
>parts I will take them all to work tomorrow in various stages of assembly, even
>this one is now just together in bits...and hopefully I can pursuade someone in
>data processing to assemble them for me. At which point I'll have to get the
>cable company in to install and connect this ethernet card.
>
>Last match played not posted yet was;
>Gandalf 432_f   +9 -16  =15
>Gambit 1.0     +16  -9  =15
>
>Tiger 13.0    138.5/240
>Gambit 1.0    136.5/240
>Fritz 6a      112.5/200
>Junior 6a      88.0/200
>Hiarcs 7.32    87.5/200
>Shredder 4.0   85.5/200
>Gandalf 432_f  31.5/80
>Nimzo 8         0.0/0
>
>Bye.
>Sarah.

Seems my upgrade is almost complete this pc is now running although there is a
really high pitched whine I hope will go away. The other I hope to finish in an
hour or so then I will continue with Gandalf_432f v Fritz 6a.

New Rebel 10 bench mark 2584 !!

Sarah.





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