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Subject: Re: Aristarch 4.4

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 08:18:14 08/10/02

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On August 10, 2002 at 10:36:28, Dan Andersson wrote:

>It's my impression that it evaluates certain positional features in an
>exaggerated manner. Tactical and short term features especially. Thats what I
>call speculative eval. Gambit Tiger ir another example of this behaviour. If a
>program is weak at fast time controls it usually means that it thas considerable
>overhead somewhere. And I do these short time control matches to get away from
>the short term fluctuations that are bound to occur in some short matches. That
>in essence means that I can say that it is far from the top at fast time
>controls and noone can say anything much about its long time control behaviour.
>Having severe trouble agains TCB does not bode well. Even if TCB is one of the
>great old ones of winboard fame.
>
>MvH


I have about 250 Games versus TAO 5.4 Fast at 4min/2s. Different settings for
Aristarch, different opening books and Aristarch is still leading by 37 Elo or
so.
So maybe at Aristarch is bad at VERY slow time controls, or TCB is just his
"Angstgegner".



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