Author: Steve Lopez
Date: 07:23:27 03/28/99
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On March 28, 1999 at 10:03:08, David Dawson wrote: >On March 27, 1999 at 10:58:51, Steve Lopez wrote: > >> >>BTW, I should have mentioned in my last post that I've tried to get >>Fischer-clock games at 20/10 and that's considered horribly slow by the majority >>of the players on the servers I frequent. I find this odd -- to me, this seems >>to be playing at a pretty good clip. I'm not a big fan of one minute initial, >>one second increment time controls -- if I want to play pinball, I'll head down >>to the corner tavern. >> >>-- Steve Lopez > >The reason for this is that 20/10 is enough time to analyse using a computer >during the game. Then the person can mix his moves in with the computer's >moves... IE, when the position becomes "positional" in nature, the human takes >over for a few moves, but when things heat up tactically, the guy allows the >computer to find the correct combination. > >When you play 1 1 chess you're pretty much guaranteed that your opponent is a >human. And you're also pretty much guaranteed that you're not playing chess, either, IMHO.
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