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Subject: Re: Zarkov5 time problems?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 07:03:50 03/03/99

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On March 03, 1999 at 09:47:35, John Stanback wrote:

>>As I already wrote Zarkov5 very often comes into time trouble in my games with
>>40/120+rest/60. This is because Zarkov spends a lot of time for each move when
>>move no.40 was reached. So between #40 and #50 Zarkov averagely spends >10min
>>per move and starts kind of blitzing when 5-6min left for the rest of the game.
>>
>>Today I've seen a game where Zarkov had a won position with black against
>>Hiarcs7 but lost on time.
>>
>>Is there s.th. wrong with Zarkov's time management or is this depending on the
>>MCS what I can't believe because WChess didn't show this behaviour.
>
>I will look into this and let you know what I find.
>John

Sounds fine to me. BTW I find Zarkov is an underestimated program and at the
moment it looks as if it can keep the edge to the top programs.



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