Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 17:06:34 08/02/01
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On August 02, 2001 at 13:01:56, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 02, 2001 at 10:53:02, Ed Panek wrote: > >>Lets say 2 programs are playing a standard game. the opening books lead to >>instant replies to move 20. then at move 20 your chess engine begins pondering >>its move for 7 minutes and then it moves. The game ends in a win for your >>program. Is there a danger to adding this 7 minute pondered move into an >>extended type opening book file? So next time it plays this opening it will see >>that for 7 minutes it saw this as the movelast time...so why waste 7 minutes >>again reaching the same conclusion? play the move right away. >> >> >>Ed > >There are reasons not to do it and reasons to do it for the ssdf games > >1)A reason not to do it: >Suppose your computer opponent does not have a learning function. >If you repeat exactly the same time of calculating the opponent is going >to repeat the same moves. > >If you play moves in 0 seconds the opponent is not going to be able to ponder in >your move and the result may be that it is going to play a different move and >draw or win the game. > >2)A reason to do it: >You can save time on the clock and this time may be important when you play >against an opponent who can learn by position but does not learn to avoid the >same opening line. > >Uri Good points Uri, some more points which happen a lot on the icc server. There you play for rating. If i'm lower rated, which i usually am when compared to programs, then i play a game. suppose i lose. But i KNEW that i had a won position. Now i can repeat the won positoin directly within a few seconds i start thinking in the position where i thought i was won and where i might have blundered as i missed a tactical shot. This is a cool method in short for me to get closer to a 50% score in blitz, of course that's only cool score if i'm way lower rated. But that's exactly what happens!
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