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Subject: Re: surprising result in correspondence games

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 14:24:26 09/14/04

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On September 14, 2004 at 17:14:48, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 14, 2004 at 16:54:20, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On September 14, 2004 at 14:53:18, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I found that the swiss IM  Bela Toth scored 9/11(7 wins and 4 draws) in the
>>>first board of the olympiad.
>>>
>>>For me it is a very surprising result.
>>>
>>>I know that very good results are possible because a lot of players do not use
>>>computers for many hours per move and I did +7 =3 against weak opposition in the
>>>preliminary olympiad board 6 but I thought that similiar result is impossible
>>>against first board of the final(not the preliminary olympiad).
>>>
>>>It may be interesting if most of the wins of Toth were achieved by blunders that
>>>the top programs can avoid after a long time(at least it was the case for most
>>>of my wins when I did +7 =3 in the preliminary olympiad)
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>      No pain, no gain: in correspondence chess it is often
>>      a matter of time you invest in choosing the next move.
>>      Bela Toth has perhaps worked for 20-40 hours per move, his
>>      opponents much less on the average and this is sufficient
>>      to win games with slightly better positions. BTW, it's
>>      not very economical to let programs run for many many
>>      hours for a single move. I prefer to investigate all
>>      sound looking moves as deep as possible by trying out
>>      all possible continuations. In this way you get much
>>      faster good results. Just my thoughts.
>>      Kurt
>
>You cannot do it when you sleep and in that time you need to decide if to do
>nothing or to do something with the computer.
>
>Uri


       I can't sleep with running computers -:)
       Kurt



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