Author: Stephen Ham
Date: 09:05:16 04/05/00
Dear Readers, Thanks for the valuable input from your replies to my earlier post. I can now officially state that my silicon opponents, Fritz 6a and Nimzo 7.32 will no longer display their 2nd and 3rd move selections in their correspondence match games with me, on a go forward basis. We always intended to give the chess engines optimal conditions. We now understand that over a 24 hour period, they may now be able to search another ply deeper, say from 18-ply to 19-ply, which is deemed to be meanigful. Also, the fear that many Correspondence Chess players have, of playing a weak human who relies entirely upon top quality hardware/software, can now be tested. We presume that such a weak player, knowing his/her limitiations, would not care what moves the computer rejects and only wants the strongest move found after calculating for 24 hours or so. Thus our experiment now follows that path. While my commentary to the match now loses the ability to comment upon the chess engines candidate moves, we get even stronger opposition...we lose something entertaining but gain something more meaningful (read: stronger). Here's a group thank you to those who contributed their knowledge. Thank you! Stephen Ham
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