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Subject: Re: Gandalf does not use enough time against the web

Author: Hermano Ecuadoriano

Date: 07:09:53 11/19/00

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On November 19, 2000 at 07:04:53, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On November 19, 2000 at 06:06:11, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I think that gandalf does not use enough time against the web.
>>
>>Here is the position before move 31 of gandalf
>>
>>[D]2r3k1/2q2pp1/7p/3p4/RppPn2N/1P2P1P1/2Q2P1P/6K1 w - - 0 1
>>
>>I download the game and found that Gandalf said -0.94 for white and played
>>31.h3
>>
>>I gave my Gandalf4.32 some hours to calculate and it say after more than 3 hours
>>-1.80 for white and not -0.94.
>
>It's rather obvious from the event that Gandalf doesn't get a lot of time to
>consider a move on comparatively slow hardware. My guess is that "the Web" uses
>chess software on faster machines making it an easy win, but it's mostly for
>fun.
>
>>If people want to reproduce my score then it is possible that they need to
>>download the game because I gave Hiarcs the information about all the moves
>>before 31.h3 and only then I downloaded gandalf4.32f(my experience say that
>>giving gandalf position under hiarcs and playing moves in analysis mode can lead
>>to different results that may be wrong so I do not use this method)
>
>If you use Gandalf for analysis under Chessbase then it's best to remove xfritz

Where is the function of this "xfritz" command documented?

>from the Gandalf_432f.init commandline. And clear the bookpath as well.
>
>Mogens.



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