Author: Harald Faber
Date: 21:55:22 01/15/02
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On January 15, 2002 at 17:33:07, James T. Walker wrote: >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 If I were sure that the results stay the same, I'd do that too. :-) But a problem is that some programs suffer from blitz time control. E.g. Shredder plays worse with g/180 than with 40/120+60 although the total playing time is the same. The time management within the first 40 moves seems to be significant different.
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