Author: David Paulowich
Date: 01:29:54 08/16/98
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On August 15, 1998 at 13:34:31, Komputer Korner wrote: >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). >-- >Komputer Korner Indeed! A 1.4 to 1 effective advantage sounds about right. And next year the computers will be 40 percent faster... But human players do not change their "clock speed". In the previous century my proposed time limit would have been considered too fast! Recently there has been discussion on how to attract grandmaster opponents. I say: grant them more time on the clock than the FIDE ever has, or ever will. We might even see a correspondence chess grandmaster try his hand at over the board play.
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