Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Date: 04:38:16 11/04/97
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On November 02, 1997 at 06:51:04, Ingo Althofer wrote: >o The Blitz tournament included some sportive elements: After each >round half the participants had to change places ( with tower, >monitor, keyboard, mouse, mouse-pad and all the cables ). For some >machines the equipment is more than 50 kg, so really heavy. Oh yes, after the games everybody was physically and mentally exhausted! >o A good operator ( concentrated, familiar with the program. fast > in moving the pieces and beating the chess clock ) is an important > factor in Blitz computer chess. This may partly explain why > Shredder was so successful, although it is in general a slow > program. Even in its manual you find a sentence like "Don't expect > too much in Blitz chess. Shredder is better in games under > tournament conditions ( 40/2 ). The key point is that Stefan > Meyer-Kahlen is an operator of professional calibre... Maybe > his operating skills are good for 20 percent of Shredder's points. I won no games on time during the blitz tournament and set the internal level of Shredder to the same level as most of the other programmers did. It still helps to be a fast operator because I also didn't lose a game on time :-) >o In rgcc there was, several months ago, a discussion on a tactical > barrier: If programs are searching deep enough, another ply will > help only marginally compared to knowledge implementations ( say > the supporters of the barrier theory ). Maybe on "Stefan's" > Alpha 533 even a slow program like Shredder may have passed > the tactical barrier already in Blitz chess ?! ( wild speculation) I think this is possibly true. Stefan
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