Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:41:20 11/16/02
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On November 15, 2002 at 21:50:31, Dann Corbit wrote: >On November 15, 2002 at 20:26:48, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On November 15, 2002 at 19:58:38, Edward Seid wrote: >> >>>To (C) authors, their official operators and computer chess fans: >>> >>>Would there be interest in a CCT-style tournament held at longer time controls, >>>say 90 30, the new FIDE standard? >> >>I think one of the main things is how such an event would be organized. For >>example, would it be over several weekends? Are we talking about playing almost >>nonstop for an entire weekend? And so on. I would love to see a longer time >>control event, but the problems are that I (and I would guess others also) don't >>have time to take off work, or spend more than one (or two max) weekends on >>something like this. > >I would like something even more sluggish: > >One at postal rates, with computers running overnight and coughing up one move >per day (A KKUP sort of thingy). > >Then, it won't interfere with work, because the program churns while you are >sleeping. It can interfere with work. If computer time is used to test improvements in the program at nights then it means that you cannot use that computer time to test your program. I believe that there is a lot of room for improvement in pruning rules and extensions rules but computer time for testing is needed. Uri
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