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Subject: Re: Two nice CSTal Blitz games

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 03:12:39 09/09/99

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On September 09, 1999 at 05:45:37, blass uri wrote:

>On September 09, 1999 at 03:56:02, Shep wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>despite Thorsten's claims, CSTal is occasionally able to play some brilliant
>>games at Blitz time controls.
>
>Thorsten did not claim that tal cannot play brilliant moves at Blitz time
>control but only that it earns more from time relative to other programs.
>
>The fact that tal lost the games only support thorsten's claim.
>
>I am not sure if thorsten's claim is correct.
>tal lost against crafty16.15 5:2 in James walker's games inspite of better
>hardware so I do not think it is a very good program at slow time control.
>
>I am interested to see if crafty16.15 can do better results(with the same
>hardware advantage) against tal in blitz.
>
>
>I see from walker's games that tal is not a good program(not only by counting
>results but also by looking at the games) and the only question is if tal is
>even worse at blitz.
>
>Uri

 Oopss! Hm, you just try Tal yourself... Of course the ratingdiff. would be
 about 500 points, but I think we should appreciate Tal as a rare flower in
 the garden of computerchess. Much better suited to play humans than other
 programs...

 Sune



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