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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 16:22:27 01/23/02

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On January 23, 2002 at 18:42:42, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 23, 2002 at 11:57:18, Thomas Lagershausen wrote:
>
>>Blitzchess is only tactics.This is well known.
>
>I disagree.
>It is interesting that computers becomes every year faster but I always hear the
>claim that blitz is only tactics.
>
>Here is another claim that it is possible to say.
>Note that I diagree with it but after reading that blitz is only tactics I must
>say it:
>
>long time control is only opening preperation.
>If book got you into a lost position you are going to lose and the engine is not
>going to help.
>
>Why do you care about long time control game?
>only blitz tells you about the strength of the engines.
>
>Uri

I can add that *if* blitz is only tactics there is a simple way to improve the
strength of programs in blitz.

programs should never care about positional changes and it means that after
having a move abd a score they should change their mind only if they find
something that is at least 0.4 pawns better because everything that is less than
0.4 pawn is not tactics.

Uri



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