Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 15:26:02 06/28/04
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On June 28, 2004 at 17:48:20, Angrim wrote: >On June 28, 2004 at 17:16:58, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>Perhaps as a chessplayer I have a bit of different perspective. I have played a >>(very) little bit of bullet (1 0 usually). In bullet, the _only_ measure of who >>is winning is kingsafety. Your goal is simply to get the king out in the open. >>Then your opponent has lets say a 1/3 chance of a major game losing blunder each >>move for 5-6 moves -> he loses. Positional play is worthless because the game >>_will_ be decided by a tactic. That is why I don't like bullet. >> >>anthony > >This is only true when playing a human, and is irrelevant when talking >about games between computers. Computers play only slightly different at >1 0 than they do at 5 0, unlike humans for which it is a quite different >game. > >Angrim Well, I think it is somewhat true for computers as well. If I have Zappa play a game at bullet timecontrols, it _will_ hang a piece at some point. anthony
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