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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