Author: José Carlos
Date: 01:06:47 01/14/04
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On January 14, 2004 at 03:24:10, Jouni Uski wrote: >Many testers (specially in Germany) play their test games with x basic minutes + >y seconds increment. What is the benefit of this kind of hydrid level really? >I still prefer to play x moves in y minutes . Of course reason for increment is >to make time losses almost impossible, but this is wrong way I think. If engine >loses on time it's engines own fault and should punish for that end of >discussion! With x/n You can count tournament time by estimating around 70 moves >in each game. > >Alternatively You can of course play game in x minutes but still no increment >needed. > >Jouni I can't speak for others, but I like to use 1 second increment because Arena (doesn't happen to winboard) eats a small time fraction in communicating with the engines. In case of a loss on time, I don't want to need to investigate if Arena or the engine was guilty. José C.
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