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clocks as an advantage for whom?

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Thursday, 6 September 2012, at 3:38 p.m.

In Response To: clocks as an advantage for whom? (lenny)

I think Bob's point was that the better prepared player is not merely able to think faster but get more out whatever time is allowed for thinking. The 8 PR player, perhaps, is an 8 PR player whether he has 12 seconds per move or 30 seconds per move. The 3 PR player might well become, say, a 2.8 player with more time to think about the occasional "possibly time consuming helpful calculation."

Lenny's references to "studied lots of xg/gnu output" and "strong vigorish for neural net studiers" seem like red herrings to me. The better prepared players are the stronger players, no matter how they go about their studies. I can see that Lenny's emphasis is, perhaps, on the larger number of positions that the more studied player can quickly play, rather than, I think, Bob's vision of deeply analyzing particularly complex positions. As if, perhaps, the lesser player could, over the board, find all the best plays in all those 3rd roll positions that the better player has memorized and understands, if only he had a bit more time. I don't think so. If the rare players with that kind of talent exists, they're among those who have realized that over the board "study" is no substitute for pretournament preparation.

Who do clocks favor? The director, yes. Everyone else, yes. And the player who manages time wisely.

Messages In This Thread

• clocks as an advantage for whom?
  lenny -- Thursday, 6 September 2012, at 5:27 a.m.
  • nobody
    mtuhtan -- Thursday, 6 September 2012, at 6:22 a.m.
    • nobody
      Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 6 September 2012, at 7:09 a.m.
  • clocks as an advantage for whom?
    Art Grater -- Thursday, 6 September 2012, at 7:42 a.m.
  • clocks as an advantage for whom?
    Michael Crane -- Thursday, 6 September 2012, at 1:01 p.m.
    • clocks as an advantage for whom?
      rew -- Thursday, 6 September 2012, at 1:29 p.m.
    • +1
      neilkaz -- Friday, 7 September 2012, at 7:57 p.m.
  • clocks as an advantage for whom?
    Strato -- Thursday, 6 September 2012, at 1:33 p.m.
  • clocks as an advantage for whom?
    Bob Koca -- Thursday, 6 September 2012, at 1:52 p.m.
    • clocks as an advantage for whom?
      benf -- Thursday, 6 September 2012, at 3:07 p.m.
  • clocks as an advantage for whom?
    Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 6 September 2012, at 3:38 p.m.
  • clocks as an advantage for whom?
    Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 6 September 2012, at 4:24 p.m.
  • clocks as an advantage for whom?
    Jason Lee -- Saturday, 8 September 2012, at 1:04 a.m.