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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