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Subject: Re: Correspondence Match

Author: blass uri

Date: 07:38:57 05/03/00

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On May 03, 2000 at 09:41:19, Steve Coladonato wrote:

>On May 03, 2000 at 03:29:48, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>On May 02, 2000 at 13:03:47, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>>
>>>There is a correspondence match going on between Steve Ham and both Fritz 6(a)
>>>and Nimzo 7.32.  The games are documented at the following site:
>>>
>>>http://correspondencechess.com/campbell/index.htm
>>>
>>>They appear to be quite interesting and the analysis by Mr. Ham is very
>>>extensive.  It's interesting that even after 19-21 hrs of evaluation, the
>>>computers are only getting to 15-16 ply.  Also, it looks like Mr. Ham has the
>>>upper hand in the games.
>>>
>>>Regards.
>>>
>>>Steve
>>
>>I am not so sure if Ham has upper hand. And note, that most moves were played in
>>3-best move mode!
>>
>>Jouni
>
>Jouni,
>
>What is "3-best move mode"?

Chessbase engines can search the 3 best move instead of only searching for the
best move.

They did it in the beginning of the game and probably they could search more
deep by searching only for the best move.

searching for 3 best moves instead of only the best move is about the same as
being 2-3 times slower.

Even if we do not assume diminishing return from being 2-3 times faster
the demage for programs in this case is not more than 100 elo and if we consider
also the fact that the programs did it only in the opening the demage is
probably less than 50 elo so it will probably not change the reuslt of the match
because the expected changed in the result is less than 0.25 point

Uri



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