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Subject: Re: CM9 BUC blitz setting

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 04:20:24 05/09/04

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On May 09, 2004 at 05:56:47, Mihaly Szalai wrote:

>On May 09, 2004 at 04:50:58, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On May 09, 2004 at 04:41:39, Mihaly Szalai wrote:
>>
>>>Hello Kurt,
>>>
>>>these are the SKR settings except the myk and the avd values. Do you think
>>>that minor changes make much difference?
>>>
>>>Best wishes
>>>Mihaly
>>
>>     Hi Mihaly
>>     Ask Alex Schumacher who thinks that this slightly changed setting
>>     belongs to the strongest one at blitz level. After some good results
>>     we sent the setting to Surak who played a lot of games with it.
>>     And from my own experience I can confirm that even very small
>>     changements may have a much greater influence than expected.
>>     Kurt & Rolf Chess: http://www.utzingerkurt.com
>
>Thank you for your reply.
>To tell you the truth I don't like blitz games: anything can happen.
>Even 100 000 games cannot convince me.
>But probably that's my fault.
>

When looking at some blitzgame it seems (for me) that a lot of randomness can be
avoided by adding some increment to the timecontrol.
Whithout this the result would only be valid with the exact same timecontrol on
PC with the same cpu-speed.
One problem is how engines react when low on time, some start moving instantly
with 30 sec. left on the clock. Also when both engine move instantly it's pure
bingo who wins.
You will also get a draw result in a drawn endgame, where without increment the
result are random.

Odd Gunnar



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