Author: Harald Faber
Date: 21:46:49 02/22/00
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On February 22, 2000 at 03:03:43, Didzis Cirulis wrote: >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. Pardon? 3 hours per game per side is no blitz at all. The setting is blitz, but not the time. 3h/game is VERY close to tournament control. Your 40/40 is blitz, it is only 1minute per move, this is 3x faster than tournament. >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. Indeed Tals time management is extraordinary. In most of the games Tal took twice as much time as the opponent, check yourself the games Tal-Shredder and Tal-Junior. Tal often used much time when the first moves out of book so after a while I saw Shredder/Junior with 2h left and Tal only one hour. PLus the hardware advantage it should have been better results. You can check yourself, the times used are given in the comments to each move. >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 :-) Then Tal should play much better when you use it in Riga. ;-)))
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