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Subject: Re: Are time controls too long?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 02:19:56 09/19/03

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On September 19, 2003 at 03:58:42, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>Not to mention you have to actually operate them. I've lose a 120/40 30SD
>game on time in the last world championships. I've seen several of people lose
>90SD games on time in Leiden. The blitz worldchampionship is played at 7" and
>the  majority of games seems to be decided on time.
>
>I don't think operator skills should be relevant to who ends up winning,
>but by shortening things, I'll be even worse than what it is today.


That's why no event serious event should have operators moving pieces around a
board, unless they just feel like doing it in addition to the autmoated game
going on between the computers. How primitive is that, really? Pretty much every
engine supports some kind of protocol, and those that don't could certainly
implement UCI in an hour.



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