Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 22:20:14 07/29/05
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On July 29, 2005 at 20:26:21, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 29, 2005 at 20:11:09, Graham Banks wrote: > >>Hi Pablo, >> >>gaining a win on time under such circumstances would give me absolutely NO >>pleasure whatsoever. What does it prove? You're not better than the program - >>you just moved faster, that's all! > >That makes it ten times harder, if that is the main difference. > >A fast enough computer can play reasonable moves in G/1 minute. >It is very difficult for humans to do that. > >For nearly every computer account, if you examine computer's Elo at lightning, >it is higher than the same computer account at blitz. > >If you examine computer's Elo at blitz, it is higher than the same computer >account at standard. > >The trend would continue (I imagine) up through correspondence time control. > >So if you can beat a computer on a small time budget, then you are really good. > >IMO-YMMV. Yes, our mileages vary a lot. It's peanuts to beat computer programs on time with premove if you end up in a position were the program just move back and forth. Michael
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