Author: martin fierz
Date: 21:29:25 09/29/02
Go up one level in this thread
On September 29, 2002 at 16:33:50, Rick Terry wrote: >Is the time control in this Match comparable to 40/2 or to the Current Fide >Standard time control? not really. it was a bit faster (2min/move instead of 3), and even though this seems to be comparable it isn't at all as you could see very well in game 2. the difference between humans and computers in time managment is HUGE: computers typically make all moves in about the same time, while humans will vary their time per move much more. a special case of this is that usually the human, once "out of book" will take a deep think to decide on how to proceed. now look at game 2: after only 5 moves, christiansen had to decide whether to play this e4-d5 variation (he did). this is the kind of BIG decision which he would ponder on for much longer than he could in this game. it's a point where you would have to accurately calculate the complications arising from Nxe4 (as in the game), and here he just had no time for this because of this strange time control. i haven't seen any analysis for this game, so i don't know whether e4-d5 was really a mistake or not (Bb5 being suggested as an improvement on cxb7). john merlino suggested that it was actually the computer which was in time trouble early on in this game, because it was out of it's book very early too. not true: computers would be playing at approximately 2min/move anyway unlike humans, so this weird time control didnt really affect CM9000 while it did affect christiansen. apart from the strange time control, a great match & congrats to the CM team! aloha martin PS has anybody analysed christiansen's rook sac?
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.