Author: Didzis Cirulis
Date: 00:03:43 02/22/00
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On February 22, 2000 at 00:44:25, Harald Faber wrote: >Again Tal on the Athlon500, Junior6 on the K6-200, both 64MB RAM, 3h/game >4.5-0.5 in favour of Junior. Look at the games, convincing wins for J6 and >doubtful sac(s) by Tal. >I have seen enough, the games all look the same, there is no need to continue >this match. Hi Harald, When I played Chess Tal 2.03 vs Junior and then vs Century, it too lost those matches by equal score of 5-3. (Games available) That is a different score then yours and I can see one reason only for this difference. You played blitz, but I used 40/40 tournament control. I too noticed that Chess tal 2.03 is getting kicked down to the last postitions of crosstable when I played my Y2K Welcome tournament at 60/game control. But I was surprised to see Tal's play after I switched to 40/40 tournament in test matches I mentioned above. Much better. I would say that Tal's blitz time management (for my standard testing method) is...er...a bit not perfect. I could say some more thoughts, but I'll better play some test match again. Didzis Cirulis P.S. Tal is not bad, not at all! Just a bit more of programmer's desire to improve the com to comp games... just a bit better hand tuned opening book... After all: World Champion Tal was from Riga, and I am in Riga right now :-)
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