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Subject: Re: Two nice CSTal Blitz games

Author: blass uri

Date: 15:00:39 09/10/99

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On September 10, 1999 at 15:51:54, James T. Walker wrote:

>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
>
>Hello Uri,
>I've been traveling for the last few days and just now returned home.  I only
>played a few games with CSTal-2 at blitz (G/5) time controls.  Against Hiarcs
>7.32 the score was Hiarcs 7.32 won 14-1 with CSTal-2 getting only 2 draws in 15
>games.  CSTal-2 is so bad at blitz it's not worth taking the time to run the
>games.  It is much worse at blitz and even worse still at "Bullet".  By the way,
>Hiarcs is the "King" of Bullet in all my testing.  It beat Junior 74-50 and beat
>Fritz by a similiar score.  These were game / 1 minute.  I don't know why people
>insist on calling Hiarcs a "slow searcher".  It finds good moves very fast.

Hello James,

people insist calling Hiarc slow searcher because it search a small number of
nodes per second.

It has nothing to do with the speed of finding good moves.

Uri



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