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Subject: Re: gandalf needs fast machines, IMO at least 1000 Ghz

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 00:47:10 12/07/00

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On December 06, 2000 at 13:40:43, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>Yes Thorsten, the problem is that Gandalf have problems with faster time
>controls. Here are other programs better. The most people thinking that a top
>program must play good in blitz, good in active chess and good in tournament
>chess. I think this is not right.

no - gandalf needs, as many others knowledged programs that come to my mind
(mchess, cstal, older hiarcs versions before hiarcs7,...)
much time.

thats pretty ok. its obvious that with longer time controls it suddenly
gets an elo-jump. considering that steen and dan have tuned it for
positions-test-suites and 40/120 games (ssdf-time control) it gets explained
why.

i like gandalf, the knowledge it has is extremely good for mail-chess analysis.
but when people play <60 seconds per move on old machines they get
weak results. so it was with cstal and hiarcs years before.
we have to differenciate to find out about the quality of something.


>Best
>Frank



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