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Subject: Re: chesstiger 15

Author: Mike S.

Date: 12:04:09 10/05/02

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On October 05, 2002 at 08:52:13, Chessfun wrote:

>On October 05, 2002 at 08:04:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>(...)
>>
>>2 12 for example is quite common on the next.
>
>In this case the main reason they use it is for places like Yahoo where no
>computer accounts exist and they need to toggle back and forth and manually
>make
>the moves on a single PC. Therefore the "inc" minimum 5 is required to avoid
>losing on time.

But OTOH, in ICC's BlitzIn program, 2 12 is the default time control setting for
the match seek. I think the idea is to limit the total thinking time *per move*,
but still have a reasonable average move time available.

IOW, probably not unusual (among humans).

Regards,
Mike Scheidl



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