Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 09:46:41 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 11:39:27, James T. Walker wrote: >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 I see this as an outdated idea.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 In blitz, differences in speed (hardware and software) are more apparent than in slow chess. If the tourney is a relatively slow time control, then the speed differences are less of an issue and chess knowlege makes more of a difference. Making the palyoff a round of blitz for a slow time-control tourney kind of misses the point of the tourney. Might as well have them play checkers as the playoff, IMO. Regards, Matt
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