Author: Pat King
Date: 08:45:31 02/25/03
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On February 25, 2003 at 11:17:52, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 25, 2003 at 11:09:42, Pat King wrote: > >>I don't know if it would hold for comp v comp, but at my chess club in the early >>90s, we played 'even up chess', 5 minute with 1 minute/100 ELO pts handicap. >>I.e. for 100 pt difference, 5 min v 4 min, 200 pts, 6 v 4, 300 pts, 6 v 3. The >>winner lost a minute in subsequent games, and on average the 100pts/minute >>seemed to be about right. >> >>Pat > >I think that it is dependent on the time control and 5 min vs 4 minutes is not >the same as 2 minutes vs 1 minute or 100 minutes vs 99 minutes. Certainly. The 100pts/min could only be expected to hold around the G/5 time control. > >This is correct both for humans and computers. > >I think that the difference for computers is smaller than humans and for 100 elo >difference you may need something like 5 min vs 2 min. > >Uri
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