Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: North American Open Wish List

Author: Omid David

Date: 10:11:31 07/18/02

Go up one level in this thread


On July 18, 2002 at 11:48:44, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 17, 2002 at 14:43:45, Omid David wrote:
>
>>On July 17, 2002 at 13:08:54, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>On July 17, 2002 at 09:15:51, David Dory wrote:
>>>
>>>>4) A good IM or GM to discuss the games subtleties in the final decisive games
>>>>   I thought Mike Valvo and David Levy added HUGELY to the ACM CC events.
>>>>
>>>>   As in Maastricht, would be great if he could play a simul or ??.
>>>
>>>I like the master playing a simul. I assume you mean against the programmers?
>>>That would be fun, IMO. I don't think playing a simul against the computers
>>>would be very fun, as the master would probably get blasted off the majority of
>>>the boards. I also like the idea about having different titles, and about
>>>promoting compute chess in North America first, then South America, then other
>>>places where it is not popular, then to Europe last, since they are the people
>>>who already have a great interest in the sport.
>>>
>>>Russell
>>
>>
>>It'd be nice if a little blitz tourney between programmers is held! A test for
>>importance of chess knowledge on the part of programmer.
>
>I do not think that a blitz tournament can show the chess knowledge of the
>programmers.
>
>I believe that I am relatively better at longer time control and at blitz I am
>probably 200 elo weaker(1800 at blitz and 2000 at tournament time control).
>
>I cannot play a single game blindfold but memory and not chess knowledge is
>needed to play blindfold.
>
>Uri

I'm awful at blitz too :-(
Once I player simultaneous blindfold chess with four people. I won 2, lost 2,
and got a headache for several days!



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.