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Subject: Re: Paris Some Afterthoughts on the Blitz Tournament

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 10:45:32 11/04/97

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On November 02, 1997 at 06:51:04, Ingo Althofer wrote:


>
>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 missed that discussion - but my gut feeling is that under *normal*
time controls....the fast machines have reaached a point where knowledge
has a greater payback than a few extra nodes....



>Ingo Althofer.



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