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Subject: Re: Massy 2002 - Final standings & pictures & pgn at ...

Author: Jeroen Noomen

Date: 09:23:04 05/30/02

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On May 29, 2002 at 09:28:04, Uri Blass wrote:


I think those questions are pretty pointless. All in all the
tournament is over and the result stands. The 'what if', 'maybe
I should' and 'it was a bad idea to' questions cannot change
anything to the result.

One thing remains: To prevent such things to happen again, there
should be another time control, or Tiger should have more time
allocated to operating the moves.

Jeroen



>It seems that there was more time left but only for the opponent.
>
>The question is if the operator of tiger was slower or if tiger wasted more time
>for it's moves.
>
>I think that is a bad idea to play games with no increasment between computers
>when the games are not played automatically by winboard or something similiar.
>
>A time control of 10 minutes per game+ 10 second per move can prevent losing on
>time and a game of 120 moves is not going to take more than an hour.
>
>It is possible to adjudicate games after 120 moves based on evaluation of one of
>the programs that do not participate in order to avoid
>the trouble of possible very long games if the participants do not want to play
>for more than one hour.
>
>Uri



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