Author: Don Dailey
Date: 03:25:55 07/27/98
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On July 27, 1998 at 02:03:33, Moritz Berger wrote: >On July 26, 1998 at 23:37:23, Mark Young wrote: > >>I think it is wrong for people to think >>fritz 5 is best at fast time controls. I found the program much stronger at >>slower time controls. Don't all programs play much stronger at slower time controls? The question is does Fritz improve more at slower time controls than Junior, the program in question. It wouldn't suprise me if you were right on this however. Each ply of search does A LOT to improve your chess, and this doesn't just apply to tactics as many people seem to think. > >I subscribe to this statement. Fritz plays best at 40/120 where search depth >often compensates for positional misevaluations (that can be observed in all >chess programs). One striking example was a French game I played a year ago >(Fritz was black) where Fritz wanted to blunder away the game by opening the >position against itself - only at the last ply (which was 12 or 13 AFAIR on my >P166) it always so the refutation after a couple of minutes and finally went >ahead and won the game. > >Moritz
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