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Subject: Re: The Stonewall vs chess programs

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:11:10 04/25/98

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On April 25, 1998 at 14:54:55, vincent dichiacchio wrote:

>
>On April 25, 1998 at 09:13:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>> ...Crafty is a
>>"null-mover" which means slow computers are really incompatible with it,
>>since it was "designed" on a P6/200.  If you slow it down by a factor
>>of 10, you can expect null-move problems, and in the Stonewall, there is
>>*plenty* of opportunity for them...
>
>Does that imply that Crafty would have null move problems in blitz
>chess?
>
>Vince

It depends.  at 5 min chess, it typically searches at *least* 7 plies
deep... which is more than enough to hide obvious null-move blunders.
But
if you play 5 0 on a very slow computer, so yo uonly get 4 ply searches,
it will die...



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