Author: blass uri
Date: 09:44:34 04/23/99
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On April 23, 1999 at 11:58:58, KarinsDad wrote: >On April 22, 1999 at 17:02:03, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>On April 22, 1999 at 15:22:01, KarinsDad wrote: >> >[snip] >> >> >>>All other games (in my mind) are chess variants. They are probably enjoyable by >>>a lot of people, but they are not a true one on one competition within a >>>reasonable time frame. I guess I am just a purist when it comes to this. >>> >> >> Then the grandmaster practice for more than one hundred years is a chess >>variant, according to your opinion. > >Yes, I do think this. Most clocked games in history have been played with sudden >death controls (at least in my experience, just so that tournament directors >could continue the tournament without having to make special considerations, but >I have been in tournaments where this is not the case). So the grandmaster >practice may be a lower percentage occurrence (I do not have statistics on this, >so if someone does, please feel free to post them). > >I think that the original practice of no clocks at all favored the person with >the best stamina, not necessarily the better player. I think adjournments give >an edge (not necessarily a win) to the player with the better analysis team. > >To me, an adjournment (where a computer or team of experts can analysis a >position) is the same as if someone played the first 5 moves of the opening and >then went to the bathroom where they look up a continuation in an opening book >or a chess database. If adjournments are allowed, should checking an opening >book not also be allowed? It will result in better chess and also does not >guarantee a win for the person who looked up the continuation. In fact, while >you are at it, why not have players play Advanced Chess instead of normal chess. >The argument is the same for these options as for adjournments. In advanced chess you can use only computers and it is not enough. I suggest that you should let players also to talk with other humans during the game(if the players are not making noise near the board) It will result in better chess. It is done in correspondence chess but unfortunately the best players are not playing in correspondence games because there are no big prizes. In correspondence games you need very big prizes to convince GM's to play Uri
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