Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 19:50:13 11/12/99
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On November 12, 1999 at 17:51:35, Dann Corbit wrote: >Looks like I'm alone in liking slow chess for championship matches. Of course, >I have never had to go through it. OTOH, I prefer the correspondence pace, and >so for me 40/2 is the fastest tolerable. > >Even at very slow pace, you can still see computers make mistakes. I remember >several from KKUP2. The higher the speed, the lower the game quality. > >I guess it all depends on what you are looking for out of the games themselves. I like to not spend a week wanting to be dead. If we want the highest quality, we'd run the games all day long and half the night. The increase in quality is not high enough to justify the increase in torture. There was a time when perhaps you needed 40/2 in order to avoid pawn forks. That time is past, we can still get nice games in less time. And if we just gotta play chess until the restaurants close, at least let's reduce the time control and increase the number of rounds, so one loss doesn't send you home. bruce
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