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Subject: Re: CCT4

Author: Michael Borgstaedt (GOLIATH CHESS)

Date: 04:25:55 01/16/02

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On January 16, 2002 at 04:51:19, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 15, 2002 at 21:56:03, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On January 15, 2002 at 16:33:18, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>
>>>On January 15, 2002 at 15:34:19, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>>
>>>>The chances of Michael Borgstädt trying to participate with two engines or
>>>>giving two permissions are zero IMHO.
>>>
>>>zero, I don't think so ?
>>>Remember wmccc 1996 in Jakarta, 2 goliaths had been entered (in fact the entry
>>>names had been different). Next year in Paris, 2 versions of Goliath had been
>>>announced too; but 1 entry had been withdrawn after some protests in internet
>>>fora. Ask Thorsten Czub; IIRC he was one of the guys opposing vehemently.
>>
>>They also both competed in Maastrict in 2001.  The regular one was in the
>>regular tournament, and the "little" one was in the blitz tournament.
>>
>>bruce
>
>If there was only one goliath in the regular tournament and one goliath in the
>blitz tournament then I see no problem and the programmer could also
>do it in the same program.
>
>Programs use different algorithms when they are in book and when they are out of
>book so I do not see a reason to prevent a program to
>use different algorithm base on the time control.

You are right. Goliath used a conventional fast/stupid search algo at fast time
controls and a horrible slow - knowledge based - search algo at longer time
controls.

Regards
Michael

>
>Uri



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