Author: James T. Walker
Date: 08:39:27 01/20/03
Neither will 90 rounds. I've seen some discussion about the times/rounds/playoffs of CCT mostly looking for ways to improve the format. In my opinion as a spectator the format is great. I even liked the playoff format. I believe a world championship was decided in a similiar manner not too long ago. Nobody should expect a swiss system event to produce the strongest player as the winner every time. However in my opinion this was the case this time. I'm also curious about some programmers claiming the blitz playoff is not good because their program is tuned for longer time controls. I wonder how you do that. I mean if you are playing your program on ICC for games, how does playing 80% or more of your games at blitz/lightning help you to tune for 40/2? Why would you want your program to perform better at 40/2 than at G/5 compared to other engines? It seems to me that the SSDF is one of the few organizations still using 40/2 for comparison. I see this as an outdated idea. The trend is toward faster time controls to better serve the spectators interest. All this is from a non programming spectator so don't give it much thought. :-) Jim
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