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Subject: Re: too tell if you know better than DB

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 08:14:58 09/08/00

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On September 07, 2000 at 23:44:12, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 07, 2000 at 23:02:31, michael wrote:
>
>> too tell which moves are  better:
>>run a program over DB's games with a short time length that gives most moves
>>different(inferior) to DB.  increase the time length until the moves seem mostly
>>similar. now increase the time length again and see if still more of the
>>suggested moves converge to DB's moves or alter to a (hopefully superior) set of
>>moves. if you can feasibly let your program run long enough that you diverge
>>from DB then i think you are doing better
>
>Interesting idea but it is possible that you will not get the result that you
>expect.
>
>You can get something like:
>In 1 minutes per move 55% of the moves are the same.
>In 2 minutes per move 60% of the moves are the same.
>In 4 minutes per move 58% of the moves are the same.
>In 8 minutes per move 59% of the moves are the same.
>
>Uri

exactly. DB made very little good moves especially in the openingsphase,
i didn't found it play that bad in endgame compared to nowadays chess programs.

However searching 8 minutes a move you'll outsearch DB pathetically.



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