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Subject: Re: Testing engines at slow rate of play?

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 12:18:16 01/01/02

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On January 01, 2002 at 15:11:54, Ted Sutton wrote:

>Why does everyone test engines at a very fast time control?
>    It gives us irrelevant information, though it is easy to do the tests.
>      What about testing engine vs. engine where each move is 12 hours, to see
>which one is better in correspondence mode?

Personally I leave that kind of testing to people who are interested in
correspondence chess (not me).  I like blitz because over the years I have lost
my patience and at my age I'm running out of time. :-)
Jim



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