Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:06:05 11/24/00
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On November 24, 2000 at 07:51:30, Chessfun wrote: >>I see nothing unfair if the rules of time management are decided before the >>games. > > >I do. The only acceptable rules IMO are the same time with the program making >it's move without human interference. If playing on a server manually on one >program and being concerned by the lag of manually moving then add an inc of 5 >secs per move to the initial time controls. > > >>When I operated Rebel Century in the Israeli league I did something similiar >>because Rebel century did not support time control of 2 hours per 40 moves+1 >>hour per game and the programmer told me that changing the time control at move >>40 to the times on the clock cause Century to play faster so I changed it at >>move 40 to the time in the clock +30 minutes so if it had 70 minutes per game in >>the digital clock I changed it to 100 minutes per game. > > >IMO that should not have been allowed. It was clearly allowed. I did not change the digital clock but only the clock of the program and there is a clear rule when I do it so I see no problem. > > >>I also did not use 2 hours/40 moves in the opening of the game because I needed >>time to operate Rebel and I used faster time control(average 2:45 minutes per >>move or even less than 2:45 minutes per move if the people who were responsible >>for the hardware came late). >> >>I believe that everything is fair if you decide about the rules before the game >>and do not change the rules that you decided about during the games. > > >Under that theory giving one program 2 hours the other 1 hour is fair as long as >it's known. I don't see how the result in a case such as that are fair. > >Sarah. If the program is using more than 1 hour then it is not fair but in the case of chessmaster the program does not use it. The same for Rebel(the program did not lose games on time by the digital clock and the rules of operating were clear) Uri
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