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Subject: Re: Used time control

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 14:33:07 01/15/02

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On January 15, 2002 at 13:36:33, Harald Faber wrote:

>On January 15, 2002 at 10:44:45, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On January 15, 2002 at 01:26:54, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>On January 14, 2002 at 20:02:32, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 14, 2002 at 13:04:18, Harald Faber wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Hello Harald,
>>>>What time control are you playing?
>>>>I don't know what Gandalf 5 will do at 40/2hours but I'm
>>>>waiting for SSDF to test it.
>>>>Jim
>>>
>>>You could have found out yourself. ;-)
>>>You can make a tattoo on your skin:
>>>
>>>"Harald Faber is only testing 40/120+60"
>>>:)
>>>Add.: On two PCs of course with ponder=on!
>>
>>I'm sorry to hear that.  I was hopeing for better results at the longer time
>>controls.  I almost never test at longer than G/2hours anymore.  That's done
>>well enough by SSDF.  By the way, what does the above 40/120/60" mean?  I read
>>it as 40 moves in 120 minutes /60 seconds??
>
>:-)))
>No, these " are only the closing quotation marks that began with "Harald...
>
>40/120+60 means 40 moves in 120 minutes plus 60 minutes for the rest of the
>game. So the games cannot last longer than 6 hours which is absolutely enough.

I agree with that !!  I now use G/2hours as the max time control and I believe
it's enough. :-)
Jim



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