Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:05:45 08/26/01
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On August 26, 2001 at 16:30:44, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On August 26, 2001 at 10:56:04, Tony Werten wrote: > >>On August 25, 2001 at 22:51:04, Chessfun wrote: >> >>>Can someone say what the time control of the blitz was, I can't >>>seem to see it anywhere? >> >>7 minutes for the whole game (including operator time ) > >When is the clock started? At move 1 or when the first engine is out of book? I think that at move 1 is the fair way to play games. The engine may calculate for a short time even when it is in book in order to avoid possible stupid blunders in the book or in order to choose the book move that it plays. I believe that playing moves that were not checked manually only because they are in book is a mistake without some blunder checking is a mistake. I do not suggest to use a long time to analyze them but I saw in the past cases when programs did stupid blunders that could be avoided by a search of less than 1 second because of a bad book and even if these cases are only 1 out of 1000 it is better to care that they will never happen in tournament time control games if the price is 1 second of search per move. Uri
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