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Subject: Re: BGN's "no-time" argument soundly refuted

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:33:42 05/08/01

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On May 08, 2001 at 15:02:31, Wayne Lowrance wrote:

>
>Okey but the strength of the opponent is not given in the games I play at blitz.
>They are games played mostly with a friend in Australia. My question was
>regarding these playing conditions, mainly opponent Paramater no specified.
>>


It would be better to use the "rating" command to set this properly, but the
default is "equal" which is not bad.  Crafty _still_ factors in search depth
which means blitz scores affect learning less than long games.



>
>No the books are not small and tiny. Kaput was just slang for " the lines will
>not be generally selected" because of the red flag (Fritz book for example).
>
>I wonder if book learning is a good thing when blitz and long time contlrols are
>plaqyed.

It is _more_ effective against a single opponent, regardless of the time control
used...  It is best at a constant time control of course.  Mixing opponents (if
one or more is a computer it is even worse) is not as clean, mixing time
controls and opponents is even worse.






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