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Subject: Re: question about handling time in WCCC

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:32:15 07/03/04

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On July 03, 2004 at 07:43:28, Stan Arts wrote:

>Hi Uri
>
>Well, I've played my first tournament in ICT4 in Leiden last April, with
>Neurosis. So I had no idea how much time I'd spend/lose operating as well.
>
>So what I did was :
>
>I played a manual testgame at home, transferring the moves, and that gave me
>some idea. (That I lost several minutes operating, for a normal-length game.)
>
>In Leiden, the timecontrols were game in 90 minutes.
>
>For the first round, I set Neurosis's (I used winboard interface, so I could
>click and drag and drop, that's very fast.) timecontrol to game in 75 minutes.
>So 15 minutes extra to operate.
>That game lasted 66 moves, and found myself at the end having used less then 5
>minutes, (so still more then 10 minutes difference left at the end) and was
>still getting used to it.

I think to prepare for the worst case and 300 moves are not impossinble(see the
following game).

Extra time of 10 minutes is too risky for this game that could be more than 300
moves in case that ufim had no bugs.


[Event "WBEC6 3rd Division"]
[Site "ATHLON-MP2200"]
[Date "2003.10.14"]
[Round "6.1"]
[White "Ufim 4.02"]
[Black "Kaissa 1.7"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[PlyCount "600"]
[EventDate "2003.??.??"]
[TimeControl "40/2400:0"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Nd5 Nxd5 8.
cxd5 a6 9. Nc3 Na7 10. e4 Be7 11. Bd3 O-O 12. Qh5 h6 13. Be3 Bg5 14. Bxg5 Qxg5
15. Qxg5 hxg5 16. O-O Bd7 17. Rac1 Rac8 18. Ne2 f6 19. b3 Kf7 20. f3 a5 21. a4
b6 22. Ba6 Rc5 23. h3 g6 24. Nc3 Bc8 25. Bd3 Bd7 26. Rc2 Rfc8 27. Bc4 R8c7 28.
Ra2 Nc8 29. Rfa1 Kg8 30. Nd1 Ne7 31. Nb2 Ra7 32. Nd1 Kg7 33. Rc2 Kg8 34. Rac1
Rac7 35. Kf2 Kf7 36. Ne3 Ke8 37. Bd3 Rxc2+ 38. Rxc2 Rxc2+ 39. Nxc2 Nc8 40. Ba6
Kd8 41. Na3 Na7 42. Be2 Kc7 43. Ke3 Kd8 44. Kd2 Bc8 45. Nc4 Kc7 46. Na3 Kd8 47.
Kd1 Bd7 48. Nc4 Kc7 49. Na3 Kd8 50. Kc2 Ke7 51. Kd2 Be8 52. Nc4 Nc8 53. Na3 Na7
54. Nc4 Nc8 55. Ke1 Bd7 56. Kf2 Kd8 57. Ke3 Kc7 58. Kd2 Na7 59. Bd3 Bc8 60. Kc3
Bd7 61. Kd2 Be8 62. Kc3 Bd7 63. Na3 Kd8 64. Kb2 Bc8 65. Kc3 Bd7 66. Kd2 Bc8 67.
Nc4 Kc7 68. Ke3 Bd7 69. Na3 Bc8 70. Kd2 Kd8 71. Ke1 Kc7 72. Kf2 Bd7 73. Ba6 Kd8
74. Ke3 Kc7 75. Ke2 Kd8 76. Nc4 Kc7 77. Ke3 Nc8 78. Kd3 Na7 79. Kd2 Nc8 80. Na3
Na7 81. Ke2 Kd8 82. Kd1 f5 83. Be2 Kc7 84. Kd2 Kd8 85. Nc4 Nc8 86. Ke3 Ke7 87.
Kf2 Kd8 88. Ke3 Kc7 89. Na3 Na7 90. Kf2 Kb7 91. Nc4 Nc8 92. Ke1 Kc7 93. Na3 Na7
94. Kd1 Kd8 95. Kd2 Ke7 96. Nc4 Nc8 97. Ne3 Kd8 98. Nc4 Ke7 99. Bd1 Kd8 100.
Ke3 Ke8 101. Kf2 Ke7 102. Ke1 Kd8 103. Be2 Ke7 104. Kf2 Kd8 105. Kf1 Kc7 106.
Na3 Na7 107. Ke1 Kd8 108. Kd2 Ke7 109. Ke1 Kd8 110. Kd1 Ke7 111. Nc4 Nc8 112.
Kd2 Kd8 113. Kc3 Ke7 114. Ne3 Na7 115. Kd2 Kd8 116. Bd3 f4 117. Nc4 Kc7 118.
Na3 Bc8 119. Ke2 Kd8 120. Nc4 Kc7 121. Kd1 Bd7 122. Kd2 Bc8 123. Kc2 Bd7 124.
Na3 Bc8 125. Kd2 Kd8 126. Ke2 Kd7 127. Ke1 Kc7 128. Kd2 Kd8 129. Kc1 Bb7 130.
Nc4 Kc7 131. Kd1 Bc8 132. Ke2 Bb7 133. Ke1 Bc8 134. Na3 Bb7 135. Kd1 Bc8 136.
Ke2 Kd7 137. Kd1 Kd8 138. Be2 Bd7 139. Ba6 Be8 140. Nc4 Kc7 141. Kd2 Bd7 142.
Kd3 Be8 143. Na3 Bd7 144. Kc3 Kd8 145. Kd2 Be8 146. Kd3 Bd7 147. Kd2 Be8 148.
Kd3 Bd7 149. Kc3 Be8 150. Kb2 Bd7 151. Kc2 Kc7 152. Kc3 Kd8 153. Kc2 Be8 154.
Nc4 Kc7 155. Na3 Kd8 156. Kd2 Bd7 157. Kc1 Be8 158. Kc2 Bd7 159. Kb2 Be8 160.
Nc4 Kc7 161. Na3 Kd8 162. Nc4 Kc7 163. Ka3 Bd7 164. b4 axb4+ 165. Kxb4 Be8 166.
Na3 Bd7 167. Bf1 Be8 168. Kb3 Bd7 169. Be2 Be8 170. Bd3 Bd7 171. Kb4 Be8 172.
Be2 Bd7 173. Bc4 Be8 174. Ba6 Bd7 175. Be2 Kb8 176. Nb1 Kc7 177. Nc3 Be8 178.
Kb3 Kd8 179. Kb4 Kc7 180. Bd3 Bd7 181. Kb3 Kd8 182. Ba6 Kc7 183. Bc4 Kd8 184.
Ba6 Kc7 185. Bd3 Kd8 186. Bc4 Be8 187. Kb4 Kc7 188. Nb1 Kd8 189. Nd2 Kc7 190.
Ba6 Bd7 191. Bd3 Bc8 192. Be2 Bd7 193. Ba6 Be8 194. Bd3 Bd7 195. Nc4 Be8 196.
Nb2 Kd8 197. Ba6 Bd7 198. Be2 Kc7 199. Bf1 Kd8 200. Bd3 Kc7 201. Be2 Kd8 202.
Bf1 Kc8 203. Ba6+ Kd8 204. Nd1 Kc7 205. Nc3 Be8 206. Nb1 Bd7 207. Nc3 Be8 208.
Bc4 Bd7 209. Kb3 Be8 210. Kb4 Bd7 211. a5 bxa5+ 212. Kxa5 Kb8 213. Ka6 Bc8+
214. Kb6 Bd7 215. Bb3 Nc8+ 216. Ka6 Ne7 217. Ba4 Bxa4 218. Nxa4 Kc7 219. Nc3
Nc8 220. Nb5+ Kb8 221. Ka5 Kb7 222. Ka4 Nb6+ 223. Kb3 Nc8 224. Ka3 Kb6 225. Kb4
Ka6 226. Nc7+ Kb6 227. Ne6 Ne7 228. Nxg5 Nc8 229. Ne6 Ne7 230. Kc4 Ka5 231. h4
Kb6 232. Kb4 Nc8 233. Kc4 Ne7 234. Kb4 Nc8 235. Ng5 Ne7 236. Kc4 Kc7 237. Kb5
Kb7 238. Ne6 Ng8 239. Ka5 Ne7 240. Kb5 Ng8 241. Ka5 Ne7 242. Ng7 Nc8 243. Kb5
Ne7 244. Ka5 Ka7 245. Kb4 Kb6 246. Ne8 Nc8 247. Nf6 Ne7 248. Ka4 Nc8 249. Nd7+
Ka6 250. Kb4 Ka7 251. Ka5 Kb7 252. Kb5 Na7+ 253. Kb4 Nc8 254. Nf8 Ne7 255. Kb5
Kc7 256. Ka5 Kb7 257. Kb5 Kc7 258. Ne6+ Kb7 259. Ng5 Kc7 260. Ka6 Kb8 261. Kb6
Kc8 262. Ne6 Kb8 263. Nf8 Kc8 264. Ka7 Kc7 265. Ne6+ Kc8 266. Kb6 Kb8 267. Nd8
Kc8 268. Nc6 Ng8 269. Na7+ Kd7 270. Kb7 Nf6 271. Nc8 Ne8 272. Nb6+ Ke7 273. Kc8
Ng7 274. Nc4 Ne8 275. Na5 Ng7 276. Nc6+ Kf7 277. Kd7 Ne8 278. Nd8+ Kf8 279. Nb7
Nf6+ 280. Kxd6 Kf7 281. Kxe5 Nd7+ 282. Kxf4 Nb6 283. Nd8+ Kf8 284. Kg5 Kg7 285.
Ne6+ Kf7 286. Nf4 Nc4 287. Nxg6 Nd6 288. e5 Nb7 289. h5 Kg7 290. Ne7 Kf7 291.
Nf5 Kf8 292. h6 Ke8 293. h7 Kd8 294. h8=Q+ Kc7 295. Qe8 Nd8 296. d6+ Kc8 297.
Nd4 Kb7 298. Qd7+ Kb6 299. Qc7+ Ka6 300. Qxd8 Ka7 {Draw by too many moves}
1/2-1/2

Uri




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