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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