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Subject: Re: Five games CSTal 2.03 - Junior 6a

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 21:50:25 02/22/00

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On February 22, 2000 at 04:05:36, blass uri wrote:

>>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 did not see something strange in the time management of tal.


Me too. Tal did like MCP and Hiarcs, use a lot of time right after the end of
the opening book. That is clever IMO.


>The games are posted with time per move and I do not see for example that tal is
>using 1 second per move in 3 hours per game for the first moves or for the last
>moves.
>
>Can you give examples for the bad time managemant of tal?
>
>Maybe the problem is that tal sometimes plays without thinking in x hours/game
>when it did not expect the opponent's move but I think that if it is the case
>then it can be proved by looking at tal's depthes.
>
>The games are posted only with Junior's evaluations so I cannot know if it is
>the problem.


No it is not, I have watched some games live, no such behaviour.


>Maybe there is another bug and tal can produce better moves in the same time
>if it knew that the time control is x hours/y moves and not x hours/game
>
>I do not have tal so I do not know.
>
>Uri

As already said, Tal used much time so there is no hint for me that the time
management is somewhat broken.




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