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Subject: Re: Reply to John Merlino's 40/120 Chessmaster tournament

Author: John Merlino

Date: 17:28:39 08/03/01

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On August 02, 2001 at 23:58:37, Daniel Chancey wrote:

>The problem with 40/120 is as I previously mentioned that it can take up to 12+
>hours for a game to be finished.  And I suggested some time controls in an
>attempt to shorten the time.    The best possible option is to create a
>secondary time control.   Sadly this option isn't available.
>
>Also, I have rarely used Chess programs these days.  My replies are also rare.
>
>I sincerely hope that the Chessmaster team make a fine comeback and climb back
>up the SSDF lists in the future.
>
>Castle2000

I don't really have a problem with the length of the tournament. "Tournament"
time controls are pretty much the "holy grail" of computer chess, and, IMHO, the
ultimate test of an engine's strength. But, that's just me....

Either way, I felt that, since I had a PIII-600 just laying around (it's usually
the machine on which I create "release builds"), I could use it for this long
tournament. Yes, it's probably going to take about 2 1/2 weeks to complete, but
that doesn't matter to me. At least it hasn't crashed or hung yet (knock on
silicon).

jm



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