Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:04:31 07/19/02
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On July 19, 2002 at 12:52:18, Russell Reagan wrote: >1 second per game? That's ridiculous. Every game would be lost on time. It would >simply be who could generate ONE move and make it the fastest as long as it >didn't move you into a mate in 2 you're safe. Maybe my exact number is off, like >maybe a mate in 4 could be detected, but it's just who can make a move that >doesn't kill you the fastest. What does that prove? If it's for fun, knock >yourself out, but I don't think it'll prove anything. I don't think blitz >matches prove anything. I'm particularly only interested in more legitimate time >controls. Blitz matches are fun since you can play the whole thing in a short >amount of time and have many games and many participants, but I don't think it >proves much. > >Russell You are simply wrong Not every game is won on time. Movei on p800 can win games not on time with 1 second per move when animation and pondering is off. It usually need more than 40 moves to lose on time and there are faster engines than movei. I do not say that it proves which engine is best at long time control but I believe that if the programmers invest one week for the task then the good programs at long time control are going to dominate in most of the cases (today they may lose on time but I believe that this problem is not very hard to fix). Uri
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