Author: Madhavan
Date: 23:03:47 06/07/05
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On June 07, 2005 at 13:30:27, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 07, 2005 at 03:26:17, Madhavan wrote: > >>Come on Guys,Start improving your level of play using any chess freeware!or a >>software >> >>I find you are only wasting your time organising engine tournaments > >Strike that, reverse it. > >>why dont you practice all the time when you open a chess software? > >The two activities are not mutually exclusive. I play hundreds of games against >the computers and also play hundreds of games computer verses computer. You can >also learn a lot by watching the compters play. In a similar way, we can learn >by watching two GMs play. ah,I get your point.so you watch programs play each other at longer time controls?especially over 2500_ rateds >>isnt watching two engines play very boring for you? > >Not at all. > >>rarity of real chess players here,and more testers reporting their results thats >>what i find everytime I visit CCC. > >There are about 500 GMs in the world. They are rare everywhere. Nevertheless, >there are some very good chess players who post here. bunch whole of GMs,seems too few to you? >>you visit:CCC and sometimes CTF,chessbase,Chess server etc. >>you automate engine tournaments,you dont test engines on longer time >>controls,most of CCC people here run 1min engine tournament. > >I guess that most people play slower games than one minute. I also have a well >known dislike for blitz. And yet I find (for instance) Pavel's Yace/Aristarch >contest compelling for some reason. do you look into games of yace/aristarch? >At any rate, I play slower games and the SSDF plays slower games and lots of >others play slower games. If you look around, you will find them. yes,but.its seems to me,no-one is interested in games,some testers publish their dozens of games without even looking at them,Howevermit would be nice if some could bother to go through the play and point out the excellent moves.only few have been doing that. >If you do not enjoy the blitz games, then look at something else. I set my time to 1 hour,giving the engine 1 minute.I have achieved a draw against all top programs. >If you look a the preponderance of games on the internet, you will find that >most of them are blitz, even by the super GMs. So apprently, lots of people >enjoy that somewhat chesslike sport. do you know any chess forum where there were serious discussions about human vs computer play.
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