Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:14:03 10/05/02
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On October 05, 2002 at 15:18:21, Chessfun wrote:
>On October 05, 2002 at 15:04:09, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>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).
>
>
>As you say among humans. Blitzin is also a human user interface, IOW cannot be
>used by computers. Although I'd assume many human players on ICC use inc's of
>3-5 when playing computers. It just seems a little odd that till now (versions
>12, 13 and 14) nothing was made of this fact. Reason.....it was never mentioned
>before by any tester. Now mentioned everyone thinks there is this big need of a
>patch?. RebelRex was #1 at ICC for Months and I know he posts here and played
>many games using inc's of 7 or more. I think the simple fact is it seems to have
>more of an effect against computers. Though naturally playing a human at 1/22
>wouldn't be good. I even watched many GM's try this on Tiger 14 on ICC.
>
>Sarah.
If I fixed it, maybe it would get better than #1 at ICC? :)
Christophe
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