Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 11:08:55 04/24/02
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On April 24, 2002 at 04:37:01, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 24, 2002 at 01:48:49, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On April 24, 2002 at 00:20:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On April 23, 2002 at 22:35:02, david wight wrote: >>> >>>>does anyone know what was the longest chess game between chess computers and if >>>>you know can you tell me where i my get a print out of it?thanks very much.dave. >>> >>> >>>Crafty played at least one game that went beyond 500 moves. It played >>>more than one that went way over 200 against a player "SKIPPER" (a human) >>>on ICC. At one point winboard/xboard had a 500 ply (250 move) limit for >>>the internal move list. Skipper blew that in a 3 0 game... (he was >>>a human, remember, not a computer)... >> >>Do I understand this right? Skipper played more than 250 moves in less than 180 >>seconds? That means the slowest average would be 0.72 seconds per move, and in >>practical play he would have probably played faster than this to go OVER the 250 >>move limit in LESS than 3 minutes. > >I guess that the reason is that ICC allows to move the mouse in the opponent >time. Thtas true and normally you have some lag as well to do your moves. Torstein >I believe that he is going to have bigger problems to play 250 moves in less >than 180 seconds if Crafty plays all the moves in 0.1 seconds but unfortunately >crafty did not use this anti human trick. > >I suspect that this trick may be a good trick against humans in closed >positions. > >It may be interesting to see what happens in 3 0 games if computers start to use >this trick after 20 plies with no conversions against humans when they always >care to do the game as long as possible by pushing a pawn or capturing in the 99 >or the 100 ply(if the opponent is in big time trouble they should do it even if >the price is losing a piece). > >This trick cannot work in games with increasments or for long time control but >for 3 0 games I suspect that avoiding closed positions is not needed for beating >humans. > >Uri
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