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Subject: Re: SmarThink question

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 01:34:55 06/07/03

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On June 07, 2003 at 01:02:33, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On June 06, 2003 at 20:04:44, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I suspect that the bug happens in x+y time control and not in 40/40
>>
>>I  guess that the stupid mistakes that were described were not a result of time
>>trouble and even a program that has 1 second to finish the game is not supposed
>>to do stupid tactical 1 ply blunders.
>
>In this post:
>
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?299525
>
>Sergei said:
>
>"The strength of SmarThink is very depends of time control. It's because of
>extremely bad method of time management. SmarThink was created for fisher-clock
>and there are several problems with time management in all types of
>non-fisher-clock games."

For some reason the bug happens in x+y time control and not in 40/40, since I
never had any problem using 40/40. I have posted severals matches against
Ruffian, and Hiarcs 8 and the bug only occurs in x=y time control.

Pichard.




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