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Subject: Re: I see your point.....

Author: Jesus de la Villa

Date: 11:46:53 07/21/00

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On July 21, 2000 at 11:29:45, Peter Skinner wrote:

>>The depth is not important because different programs do different extensions.
>>If you compare Crafty's depth with hiarcs you will find that Crafty goes deeper
>>but Hiarcs also wins Crafty in blitz.
>>
>>Junior's depth is not plies so you cannot compare apples with oranges.
>>
>>I do not see a reason to worry about the fact that commercial programs win
>>Crafty in blitz.
>>
>>Crafty wins faile in all time controls(You can download fail in the chessbase
>>site) and I do not see it as a problem.
>
>Exactly, blitz is not a true measure of strength. Any given program can win a
>blitz series.

No, Blitz is a true measure of strength...for that category.
And any program that wins a blitz series would be the champ...in that category.

Just two different things.

>       I have even had TCB win a blitz series vs Hiarcs, yet we all know
>that TCB is not as strong as Hiarcs. It just happened to win that gien day.
>
>>>not many people has a multi processor. So I am wondering if is it possible to
>>>maintain the same quality of game but with better speed? which is also my main
>>>question.
>
>>The ssdf does tournament time control games and Fritz6a is number 1 and not
>>Crafty(not every program can be number 1 and I do not see the problem).
>
>What is the difference between Fritz 6 and Fritz 6a?



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