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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