Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 10:15:52 04/29/02
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On April 29, 2002 at 12:31:57, stuart taylor wrote: >>I prefer (at least) ONE game at tournament time control, g/120, 40/40 instead of >>hundreds or thousands of bullet games. > >Well, in fact, I feel the same way, but I thought I was always in the minority. >On the other hand, great programers like Chr. Theron seems to favour the >multitude of games, even blitz (I don't know WHICH blitz), and, as far as >computers themselves are concerned, some programs can play "instant" at a >standard that is unimaginable to any human without quite alot of thinking time >allowed. >Simply, the whole concept of time is not the same for humans and computers. BUT, >longer is (alot) better, even for computers, and as long as that remains true, >my preference for those longer games makes Blitz a complete waste of exitement. Neither program has solved chess, they both suffer from horizon effects which will make all games a bit random. In some sense it is better to play a lot of fast games to see which is better _on average_. For Hiarch-Fritz you would might see a score like 45-55, so of course one game would not tell you much. Getting this kind of statistic is almost impossible with long time controls (obviously). However for all we know, program X might do better against Y in fast games and vice versa in slow games, so it probably doesn't show us that much anyway. -S.
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