Author: Shaun Graham
Date: 12:48:43 08/07/98
Is there a trade off in strength that "can or perhaps does" occurs for programs that play blitz exceptionally well, when it comes to playing standard games? For instance Genius is held by many to be the best blitz player, my feeling is, that this is simply due to it's excessive tendency to play defensively(defense comes quick to genius). This makes it considerably more difficult to form a constructive plan of activity, which in the end results in opponents falling too short of time and losing. However this strength which makes it so great at blitz also is one of the main causes for it falling behind the other top programs(IMHO). Ferret at it's best had an astonishing 3129 blitz rating on ICC(it has a high standard rating as well)! I'm just wondering about this question because of the upcoming match with Marovic. Ed Shroeder mentioned that this match "would" tell us something more about how far programs are, for this to be the case it would seem necessary for ferret to be a top standard computer player. Is it? I personally think we could learn the most from a match with a bare bones average GM who maintains consistently a average rating of 2500. For the reason that a GM of Marovic's caliber might dessimate Ferret even if it does play at GM strength.
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