Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 23:21:57 12/16/01
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On December 17, 2001 at 01:12:01, Harald Faber wrote:
>On December 16, 2001 at 23:14:30, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On December 16, 2001 at 06:47:31, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>On December 16, 2001 at 06:40:46, Sergei Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 16, 2001 at 06:07:40, Harald Faber wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>A horrible, desastrous result for Shredder 6: 1.5-8.5 vs. Fritz 7a is crushing.
>>>>>(Game #11 ended draw)
>>>>>I haven't found the time to take a closer look at the games.
>>>>>
>>>>>Currently Shredder 6 - Junior 7: 1.5-0.5
>>>>>
>>>>>Games etc. like always available at www.harald-faber.de
>>>>
>>>>Shredder may be stronger at longer time settings, at time settings of 1 move in
>>>>3 minutes. I'd try those.
>>>
>>>Did you read the match conditions? I doubt that. I am testing 40/120+60.
>>
>>
>>
>>:) :) :)
>>
>>That's an automatic answer: when program X performs badly, the automatic answer
>>is that you should have played at longer time controls.
>
>I just expected that in the meantime really everyone knows that I *exclusively*
>test with tournament time control.
Ah. Well, so you should use even longer time controls then! ;)
>>I know a lot of programs (actually all the ones that are not close enough to the
>>top of the SSDF) that are supposed to play much stronger at longer time
>>controls.
>
>Actually I know two programs where this is correct: Junior 7 and Shredder.
>Especially Shredder is a phenomenon. The g/180 results are much worse for
>Shredder than 40/120+60.
That's not what I call to play better at longer time controls.
I call this playing worse at faster time controls. :)
>>One thing I don't understand: nobody ever complains the opposite. I mean: when
>>was the last time you have heard "you should have played faster time controls"?
>>
>> Christophe
>
>Because in faster time controls only Fritz wins. ;-)
Oh well... We will see. ;)
Christophe
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