Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 05:42:23 08/28/99
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On August 28, 1999 at 08:26:12, James T. Walker wrote: >Overnight I played 174 games with time control of game in 1 minute. These were >auto 232 games with Hiarcs on a PII-333 and Nimzo '99a on a K6-3-450. The score >according to the crosstable was 87.5-86.5 in favor of Hiarcs 7.32. After >checking the games for time control violations I find the score is 149-25 in >favor of Hiarcs 7.32. The problem is Nimzo seems to be programed to play only >about 50 moves/minute. So most all games over 60 moves were actually won by >hiarcs on time. In one game of 184 moves Nimzo had used 4:04 and Hiarcs had >actually used 1:01. This is the only game of more than 2000 in which Hiarcs has >overstepped the stated time control. Conclusion: If you give a program all the >time it wants to play the game and ignore the time controls, it may do pretty >good! I might be a little ignorant concerning the meaning of bullet games. Please explain why bullet games are interesting. They have no chess value whatsoever in my opinion. Enlighten me :o). Best wishes... Mogens
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