Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 09:14:56 03/05/01
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On March 05, 2001 at 12:12:16, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >On March 05, 2001 at 03:31:32, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>I think it is impossible to argue which is the strongest chess program in >>Correspondence Chess. It depends on a given situation. My experience furthermore >>shows that in closed positions you can't believe the programs. It makes - in my >>opinion - no or seldom sense - to let a program run for hours. You will get much >>better results in trying out different moves and going move by move deeper using >>the analysis mode. >>Kurt >With very limited experience I tend to agree. At times my programs agree on the >move but with trial and error using human positional judgement I am able to find >a better move (this not too often, but it has happened). other times I find that OOps I just read my post and it sounds like I do not give crafty credit as being one of the top programs, which of course it is---Sorry Bob, not intentional Wayne >Tiger Gambit finds a better move. I have never had Hiarcs 7.32 find a better >move, nor Junior 5 and until this morning I would have said that about crafty >except the little bugger found a nice quiet move that set fritz6e back a little. >Up till now I have used Fritz5e as the trial horse as It seeems that opponents >are making fritz moves which gives me some sense of advantage being able to >somewhat predict response, but not always. > >Thanks for response(s). I am curious if best programs at 40/2 are still best at >unlimited time. >I sorta have formed that opinion ahead of the post, but Crafty has surprised me >with his move this morning. I must give crafty more chances now as up to now I >have not. > >Thanks all >Wayne
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