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Subject: Re: -- news: Mars defeats Nickel! Planets take the lead in the match --

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 16:02:49 11/18/04

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On November 18, 2004 at 16:14:54, Andrei P wrote:

>this is pretty amazing! Nickel could have used and, as far as I understand, did
>use all of the engines playing against him to help his analysis. Still, he lost.
>so human involvemnent in this case is a handicap.


This conclusion is wrong.

The engines had more time because Nickel did not buy a computer for every
opponent.
Nickel could expect to lose part of the games also without using his brain
because of time advantage of the opponents when they run 24 hours about the
moves when he can use them only for maybe 1/10 of that time.

10:1 time advantage is significant even at correspondence game inspite of
diminishing returns.

Uri



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