Author: James T. Walker
Date: 10:56:22 01/16/02
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On January 16, 2002 at 05:32:48, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 16, 2002 at 00:55:22, Harald Faber wrote: > >>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. > >programs should play better at g/180 because at g/180 they can choose if to use >more than 2 hours for the first 40 moves and for 40/120+60 they have not the >choice. > >Does shredder use less time for the first 40 moves >when you tell it g/180? > >Is there a program that always use the rule of using more time at slower time >control? > >I suggest to test programs in the following situations with no opening book >1)200 moves/200 minutes+1 minutes per game >2)g/180 >3)10 moves/120 minutes+1 minutes/game > >T(1) is the time that is used for the first move in case 1 >T(2) is the time that is used for the first move in case 2 >T(3) is the time that is used for the first move in case 3 > >How many programs have T(1)>T(2)>T(3)? > >Uri Hello Uri, Your time controls make no sense to me. Should the last part be +1 minute per move instead of + 1 minute per game? Also I think a better test would to compare Haralds times used to what he says is almost the same. Such as: 40/2 hours + 1 hour for rest of the game vice Game/3 hours. If the first 40 moves are the same then the time controls are close enough. Anyway I tend to look at it differently. I don't see any major diffenences in averaging 3 minutes/move compared to averaging 2 minutes/move. I don't think the ELO rankings under either time control would be significantly different. In fact I also believe the SSDF should change to a quicker time control because almost nobody is using 40/2 anymore. "The times they are a changing." I would like to see G/2hours used by everybody. That way no game would last over 4 hours and it would be easier to plan rounds in tournaments. Four hours at one sitting is long enough! Jim
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