Adequate time control for Blitz matches

on Fri May 22, 2015 10:01 am by · on Fri May 22, 2015 10:01 am by

The purpose of this tread is to find the sweet spot range for playing many games and to try letting the error ratio stay relatively stable.

Candidates:

3min + 2sec - equivalent to 10min.

6min + 4sec - equivalent to 20 min.

Candidates number 2

4min +1sec

2min +3sec

on Sat May 23, 2015 12:16 pm by · on Sat May 23, 2015 12:16 pm by

[pgn][Event "Expert-PC Laptop, Blitz 3m+3s"]
[Site "URAUEB-"]
[Date "2015.05.23"]
[Round "13"]
[White "Stockfish 210515 64"]
[Black "Komodo 9.01 64-bit"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D46"]
[Annotator "0.02;0.21"]
[PlyCount "120"]
[TimeControl "180+3"]

{AMD Athlon(tm) II P320 Dual-Core Processor 2094 MHz W=23.5 plies; 2Â 161kN/s;
aMaLiA pOwEr.ctg B=20.6 plies; 2Â 088kN/s; aMaLiA pOwEr.ctg} 1. d4 {B 0} d5 {
B 0} 2. c4 {B 0} c6 {B 0} 3. Nf3 {B 0} Nf6 {B 0} 4. Nc3 {B 0} e6 {B 0} 5. e3 {
B 0} Nbd7 {B 0} 6. Qc2 {B 0} Bd6 {B 0} 7. Bd3 {B 0} O-O {B 0} 8. O-O {B 0} dxc4
{B 0} 9. Bxc4 {B 0} b5 {B 0} 10. Be2 {B 0} Bb7 {B 0} 11. Rd1 {B 0} Qc7 {B 0}
12. e4 {B 0} e5 {B 0 Both last book move} 13. g3 {0.02/22 8} Rfe8 {0.21/18 15}
14. a3 {0.00/22 15 (Be3)} a6 {-0.10/18 13} 15. Be3 {-0.09/22 7 (Bg5)} Ng4 {-0.
10/18 5} 16. dxe5 {-0.05/19 1 (Bc1)} Nxe3 {-0.47/18 3 (Ndxe5)} 17. exd6 {-0.37/
23 8} Nxc2 {-0.45/20 5} 18. dxc7 {-0.47/20 1} Nxa1 {-0.18/21 5} 19. Rxd7 {-0.
29/25 8} Nb3 {-0.30/21 4} 20. Ng5 {-0.43/24 7 (Nd4)} Nc5 {-0.66/20 5} 21. Rxf7
{-0.45/20 1} Bc8 {-0.62/22 8 (Ne6)} 22. Rf3 {-0.73/22 11} h6 {-0.86/22 7} 23.
Nf7 {-0.96/25 9} Bg4 {-0.85/23 6 (Nxe4)} 24. Nd6 {-0.95/24 14} Bxf3 {-0.90/23 6
} 25. Bxf3 {-0.93/21 1} Rec8 {-1.03/22 9} 26. b4 {-0.99/24 11} Nd3 {-1.06/21 4
(Nd7)} 27. Nxc8 {-0.97/25 13} Rxc8 {-1.06/20 3} 28. Be2 {-1.05/21 2} Ne1 {-1.
13/21 9 (Ne5)} 29. Kf1 {-0.97/27 15 (e5)} Nc2 {-1.08/19 3} 30. Nb1 {-1.05/27 9}
Rxc7 {-1.05/20 6} 31. Bd1 {-1.03/23 3} c5 {-1.14/23 17 (Nd4)} 32. bxc5 {-1.00/
27 8} Rxc5 {-1.18/24 12} 33. Ke2 {-0.95/26 4} Nd4+ {-1.12/21 5} 34. Kd2 {-1.05/
26 7} Nc6 {-1.20/22 7} 35. Nc3 {-1.06/22 2 (Bb3+)} Na5 {-1.17/22 7 (Ne5)} 36.
Kd3 {-1.10/27 10} Kf8 {-1.15/22 8} 37. Be2 {-1.03/24 1} Rc6 {-1.19/23 10 (Rc8)}
38. Kc2 {-1.05/25 12} Nc4 {-1.23/22 5} 39. Bxc4 {-1.24/26 16} Rxc4 {-1.19/20 3}
40. Kd3 {-1.30/27 7} Rc8 {-1.25/20 4 (Kf7)} 41. f3 {-1.32/25 12 (f4)} Ke7 {-1.
47/21 10} 42. f4 {-1.38/28 26} Kd6 {-1.36/21 10 (Ke6)} 43. Kd4 {-1.38/27 4
(e5+)} Rc4+ {-1.96/18 3 (Ke6)} 44. Kd3 {-1.48/27 9} Kc5 {-2.08/19 4 (Rc5)} 45.
e5 {-1.83/24 5} Rd4+ {-2.17/21 10} 46. Ke3 {-1.83/23 1 (Kc2)} Kc4 {-2.54/18 3}
47. e6 {-2.68/25 16 (Ne2)} Rd3+ {-2.96/20 6} 48. Ke2 {-2.81/26 8} Rd8 {-3.03/
21 6} 49. Nb1 {-3.16/25 18} g6 {-3.16/21 5 (Kd5)} 50. Ke3 {-3.08/23 14 (g4)}
Rd3+ {-4.08/19 6 (Kd5)} 51. Kf2 {-3.82/23 6 (Ke4)} Rd6 {-4.47/21 4} 52. e7 {-4.
18/21 5} Re6 {-4.97/22 8} 53. Nd2+ {-3.93/20 1} Kc3 {-5.07/22 4 (Kd5)} 54. Nf3
{-4.59/21 6} Rxe7 {-5.24/19 3} 55. Ne5 {-5.24/22 4 (Nh4)} Re6 {-5.56/22 13} 56.
Nf7 {-5.49/20 3 (Kf3)} Kb3 {-6.09/20 5} 57. Nxh6 {-6.06/20 3} Kxa3 {-7.75/19 16
} 58. f5 {-7.43/19 3 (h4)} gxf5 {-9.84/18 5} 59. Nf7 {-9.76/23 4 (Nxf5)} b4 {
-10.71/19 4} 60. Ng5 {-10.30/21 3} Rc6 {-27.67/20 12 (b3)} 0-1

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on Sat May 23, 2015 8:23 pm by · on Sat May 23, 2015 8:23 pm by

1 core each
Permanent brain enabled with the idea of in-directly increase total time each game.
128mb hash each - more than adequate with this relatively slow laptop.

Predicted move ratio = 62%

Permanent brain wrote:Pondering is less effective than normal thinking. For example, if the program guesses 25% of the opponent's moves correctly, the use of pondering is on average equivalent to increasing the normal calculating time by a factor of 1.25.

In this case the time factor is 1.62.

In chess games between two computers, pondering makes sense only if the competing chess engines use separate processors or cores. If they share the same core, the pondering program steals half of the time from the program thinking in the normal way and uses the stolen time less effectively.

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