Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:35:27 08/11/05
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On August 11, 2005 at 09:22:31, Tony Nichols wrote: >On August 11, 2005 at 08:09:47, Steve Glanzfeld wrote: > >>On August 11, 2005 at 07:49:12, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >> >>> 25m+10s is much too fast for human players >>> and at this TC humans will have almost no chance. >>> This event is not worth watching for me. >> >>Really? There were lots of events in the past with comparable time controls, >>like the Intel Grand Prix. It seems that several grandmasters did contradict >>your opinion, because they participated. And: A **Grandmaster** must be able to >>defends his reputation on ANY time control, because: the opponent doesn't have >>more time either. No? >> >>Grandmaster = always, not just at 40/2h no? >> >>Steve > > In order to get the GM title you have to play in classical chess tournaments. >No title is given for rapid games. GM's should only have to defend their title >in the same arena they got it in. There are many untitled blitz players who can >beat GM's but this does not make them GM's. Rapid time controls favor computers >because they are fast calculators. This is fun to watch but it's almost a >handicap match. >Regards >Tony The fact that computers are fast calculators also give them advantage in slow time control. The main problem in FRC is that the players play in unknown territory so the quality of the game may be significantly lower at fast time control. I am not sure if in normal chess computers are generally better at faster time control. Maybe it is the opposite and at fast time control humans have a better chance to prepare traps to the computer before the game when at slow time control it is harder to do it because computers will not fall for the same traps. Uri
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