Author: Jouni Uski
Date: 02:17:23 04/06/00
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On April 05, 2000 at 12:05:16, Stephen Ham wrote: >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 Very good. Fortunately programs have not made too stupid moves yet!
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