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Subject: Re: Can your program avoid BxN?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:55:55 07/26/01

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On July 26, 2001 at 11:17:02, James T. Walker wrote:

>Hello Uri,
>Well you did not have the game history and I used 128M hash but it's not
>comforting to note that Hiarcs 7.32 took almost 10 minutes to find Be3 on your
>computer.  In a tournament time control of 40/2 it may or may not take that
>time.  Maybe it depends on how much time it has left before the 40 move mark.
>This still leaves a big hole in faster time controls.  I personally don't like
>the idea of tuning a program to play best at long time controls and ignoring
>blitz.  I still believe most people do not take the time to play their computers
>at 40/2.  The last time I asked how many people do this only one person
>responded.  Even FIDE has dropped that time control and I believe it's time for
>SSDF to do the same.

Blitz is what most people play.
Eventually, chess will be gone, and everyone will play lightning.
Won't that be a joyful day.



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