From: David J Bush cstone net> Date: 25 aug 2004 Subject: Professional shogi game time management Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Stories from the Civil Rights Movement. Extraordinary stories,=20 ordinary people. Share your memories today! http://click.topica.com/= caacvgla2i6YsbnuqMaa/AARP ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Reijer's excellent posts, I have seen records of many pro games, including how many minutes each move took. Nearly all the professional players I can recall seem to have little reluctance to enter or approach byo-yomi well before the end of the game. Taking over an hour for a single move is not at all uncommon. What surprises me the most is the time the pros take to reach positions which have occurred before, sometimes in games they had played! Certainly, shogi is a deeper game than chess, and any comparison of time management would have to take this into account. But I wonder if any top shogi player will ever adopt a different strategy, budgeting more time for the later stages of the game. Arguably it was this approach which Anatoly Karpov used with great success when he was generally regarded as world chess champion. I suppose what really matters is, does the quality of play tend to deteriorate in the endgame of match games? Is this something that a player could improve by taking less time in the early stages? What do you think? David Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Buy Stocks and Index Funds for just $4 No Account or=20 Investment Minimums and No Inactivity Fees Automatically=20 invest weekly or monthly and build your future. http://click.topica.com/= caacvgga2i6YsbnuqMaf/Sharebuilder ------------------------------------------------------------------- --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: = shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.= bnuqMa.= c2hvZ2kt Or send an email to: shogi-unsubscribe topica com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=3DTEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------