Author: James B. Shearer
Date: 11:44:48 03/29/99
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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.
This is not the whole story. I mostly play computers on the servers and
I prefer fast games. I think most of the games on the servers are fast games
because most of the players prefer fast games.
James B. Shearer
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