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Subject: Re: Why are you playing with such slow timecontrols?

Author: karen Dall Lynn

Date: 13:51:13 01/23/02

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On January 23, 2002 at 11:57:18, Thomas Lagershausen wrote:

>Blitzchess is only tactics.This is well known.So it´s not a new perception that
>fritz is the best blitzplayer under the chessprograms.As i know Kramnik is not
>playing a blitzmatch against a machine in Bahrain.So who cares of the
>blitzperformance of chessprograms?

Chess is a long art and life is perhaps too short for it. I can promote some
hundreds of blitz games running overnite on my home computer. But I cannot
promote long games in a number which could be enough to produce inference. Short
is life for that.

For this reason for some time I even believed that top-engines comparations
would be deemed to remain largely inconclusive and the results, uncertain. Yet
blitz results are not absolute results; they are only comparative. It is
expected that a fine tactical program might reveal its excellence under other
time control settings as well. Thence the relevance of such a lenghty testing
even under limited time control range.

However you got me about something; I never had the idea of promoting a single
long game between, say Shredder 6 (which I used to favor with a very positive
expectative before its releasing) and Fritz 7, or Tiger 14.0 and Fritz 7. And
after reading your message this idea imposed itself to me as interesting next
step. I will start a 5 hours conventional game this dawn when I go to sleep and
report its result to this forum tomorrow.

Thank you for your opinion.

Karen



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