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Subject: Re: AP downloads, ratings and the latest results now online ...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 21:38:46 08/23/01

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On August 23, 2001 at 18:02:17, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>Hi Uri,
>
>games with longer time controls are for sure better for statistics.
>If I play the 20 AP tourneys with 40 in 120, the tournament is 3 years still
>running.
>
>40 in 10 on a dual system is a good time control. Every game 30 minutes and for
>this experiment is this enough.
>
>Only a hand full programs which I know have in all my computer chess games
>little different in the performance with different time controls. I mean only
>the statistics. The material with longer time controls is clearly better and
>more interesting. But which person have the time to play interesting tournaments
>with 40 in 120.
>
>It was only a little experiment ... just for fun for me ... and I have a lot of
>fun. Here blitz games are better for looking, I mean I have not the time to look
>live in a game with the time control 40 in 120 hours.
>
>I hope that the results and statistics are interesting for every one. I make me
>here a lot of work in the last 2 months with this little experiment and I know
>that user have fun on this page.
>
>Best
>Frank

You can do a tournament of 40 in 1 minute and we can compare the results to get
a conjecture which programs earns more from time.

I guess that most of the programs that perform better at 40 in 10 and not at 40
in 1 are going to continue to perform better at 40 in 120.

Uri



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