Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 22:10:52 01/17/03
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On January 17, 2003 at 23:34:00, Brian Richardson wrote: >On January 17, 2003 at 22:36:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 17, 2003 at 13:34:28, Volker Richey wrote: >> >>>. >> >> >>As a note, we played 60 10 late time. One thing I would suggest is that we >>pick a time control and keep it as a "standard". IE the ACM events, from 1970 >>to 1994 were 40 moves in 2 hours. That gives a good method of comparing >>progress from year to year, since the time control was constant. > >IIRC a couple of other CCTs were also 45 10, but there was a 75 10 for CCT1 > >The question had come up if there was an significant difference between >certain times. > >My thinking was that most engines need about 3x longer to see another >ply deeper, so 75/60/45 all would produce very roughly the same "quality" >of games. > >Comments? I think they are pretty close. But it would be better to pick something and stick with it for CCT events from here on. 45 10 is faster. But it is perfectly ok with me just so it stays there so that we have some consistency.
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