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Subject: Re: Proposal for a 3to1 time advantage

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 10:34:31 08/15/98

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On August 11, 1998 at 04:13:47, David Paulowich wrote:

>
>Give the computer one hour for the first 40 moves and one hour for the
>remainder of the game.  Triple the time limits for the human player.
>Fairness is a nonissue here.  The goal is to allow human players to
>perform at the highest level.
>
>I believe that the present FIDE policy of faster and faster games can
>only lower the quality of chess.  We tend to forget the hard work and
>detailed calculation behind a Frank Marshall brilliancy.  Incidentally, can
>anyone tell me the time limits used in the Lasker-Marshall match?

With a 3 to 1 time advantage and Crafty's guess rate of 50% on pondering, AND
EVEN IF THE HUMAN GUESSES Crafty's moves 50% of the time, the time advantage
reduces to 1.4 to 1. Even with a 1,000,000 to 1 time advantage the upper limit
is only 1.999999 to 1. Just goes to show the power of pondering (thinking on the
opponent's time).
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Komputer Korner



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