Author: Pete Galati
Date: 13:44:16 11/12/99
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On November 12, 1999 at 12:46:20, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On November 12, 1999 at 12:31:15, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>Fast chess is icky chess. The faster the programs play, the worse the quality >>of the games. We already get enough fast chess on the internet servers. >>Please, can't we leave it at tournament time controls? If we want more rounds, >>let the programs play with an automatic tournament manager and run 24 hours a >>day for as long as needed. > >You haven't been to one of these events yet, I think. You sit there making >manual moves for hours, two games a day, for a thousand years. You get sick. >You miss lunch and dinner. There is nothing more annoying that going to a place >that has great food and ending up living on bar peanuts. > >The games can be sped up by a factor of two without much appreciable "quality" >loss, and we'd have time for more rounds and/or better food. > >bruce You need to have a way to send in a releif driver, someone else to strap on the helmet and drive a few laps while you get up & stretch your legs & do normal human stuff. What you describe sounds like torture. Pete
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