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Subject: Re: Perfect Position No program can win this game from white even Fritz

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:11:47 07/13/02

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On July 13, 2002 at 10:53:08, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On July 13, 2002 at 10:43:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>Crafty generally didn't have the problem at long time controls.  But that
>>was the gist of the problem.  The good players would hit "3 0" time controls
>>where a short search would cause problems...  At normal time controls in
>>most Trojan positions, Crafty could see the mate or loss of material. But
>>humans played it as fast as they possibly could, which caused the problem.
>
>So is this one of the things that will be taken out in a few years when you have
>enough speed?
>
>-S.


Hard to say.  Eventually speed will do the trick
of course...  but it will probably be a _long_ time
before 1 0 games are "safe".  I suspect it will always
be needed...



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