Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 14:47:11 12/07/00
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On December 07, 2000 at 03:47:10, Thorsten Czub wrote: >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 Hi! Yes I agree with you but the main problem for Gandalf and Crafty is that it don't like AMD K6-2 450, it's only as fast as a P2-333 (in the SSDF-list). It don't looks like Mchess gains as much as the others you mentioned though. Yes Gandalf is a really entertaining and active program! Steen has done the biggest improvements of all programmers in the last years! But it is now when he competes with the best it is really tough, to improve! Bertil
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