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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:53:39 09/08/00

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On September 08, 2000 at 11:14:58, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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.


How?  I didn't see anybody that can search 16-18 plies in 5 minutes as DB
did against Kasparov...  so how is someone going to outsearch it with only
3-4 more minutes?




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