Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:42:34 03/29/02
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On March 29, 2002 at 19:39:43, Christophe Theron wrote:
>On March 29, 2002 at 07:33:34, Ed Schröder wrote:
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>>Dear CCC,
>>
>>This posting is dedicated to Thorsten in the first place being the absolute
>>opponent against statistics. He might change opinions after this conclusive
>>posting, Thorsten you will love this one!
>>
>>It's also dedicated to those who still believe that there is no performance
>>increase/decrease when playing on different time controls. (Hi Christophe!)
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>That's not exactly what I believe.
>
>I believe that it is possible to write a chess program that will be the best at
>any time control.
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>That's the direction I am try to follow, and that's why I take into account the
>performance of my program at all time controls, including blitz on very slow
>hardware (old 386 or Palms).
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>I also consider that a program that is good only at a given time control has a
>serious problem.
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> Christophe
I would also add that "program X will be better at longer time controls" is a
commonly used excuse for a program that sucks.
Has been used for years in the case of Chess System Tal for example. Still have
to figure out how much "longer" it needs.
Christophe
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