Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:51:58 10/17/97
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On October 17, 1997 at 04:50:54, Christophe Theron wrote: > >On October 17, 1997 at 03:59:32, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>What I noticed is that on a simple P90 Rebel9 wins games on ply depth >>because of the new faster search. For Rebel this is a surprising new >>development wouldn't you say so? > >Yes, I do. > > >>Then on faster >>machines the opponent program sees more and therefore is able to avoid >>mistakes better resulting in a better score. > >Something we discussed earlier: tactics vanish when programs can go deep >enough (and you know that so well). It used to be in favour of Rebel... >Times are changing... > wait a minute here. tactics *never* vanish. Check out some of the Korrespondence Kup games. There were *huge* tactical battles in some of the games, that searching to 10 plies would lose instantly. The programs "might" make fewer tactical mistakes at deeper depths, but they do make them. Find some tactical positions and run 'em thru at 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 plies (if you can reach that depth) and watch what it suddenly sees a ply or two deeper. This is not uncommon at all... > >>I currently am running an AUTO232 session (against R8,G3,G5,M6,H6) on >>1 minute average. Results are also good sofar. Then I plan 0:30 average >>and so on just to satisfy my curiosity. > >Please tell us about the results. I swear I'll never say it's commercial >announcement. :) > >Can you give us an idea of the average ply depth Rebel9 reaches in those >games, if it is not "top secret"? > >I begin to be glad not to see Rebel in Paris this year, because if Rebel >is good ALSO in fast chess, I'd better go back to tic-tac-toe (I wrote a >very strong TTT program, you know) :) > >But I hope to see you, because I'm one of your fans! > > >- Christophe -
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