Internet engine matches

[Joost Buijs]

One way out is playing faster games, 1 minute is long already, but Bert's 5 minutes is like an eternity.

Matches at 1 to 5 seconds per game are much better in my opinion, and you don't need to change the rules.

Only thing is, that this can be difficult to enforce from a hub standpoint, because of communication and GUI overhead.

I agree that faster games could be a solution, even with games of one second the communication and GUI overhead should not give a problem because it is possible to compensate for that by adding time-stamps to the transferred moves, this is already common practice for chess tournaments that run over the internet.

Another concern is time-control, in my experience there are several draughts engines surpassing the allowed time. With chess an engine that surpasses the allowed time will lose immediately, even when it is just 1 microsecond. With draughts the existing GUI's don't seem to look at this at all, this has to be fixed before tournaments with very short time-control become feasible.