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Subject: Re: Yes, this is a major improvement of Comet, Ulrich please explain.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:26:18 06/12/02

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On June 12, 2002 at 09:13:44, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On June 12, 2002 at 08:39:12, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On June 12, 2002 at 07:07:23, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>Interesting match and stunning start for Comet! What has Ulrich done??
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>My next match will be G/60, but only 10 games. Ulrich can you explain what major
>>improvements you implemented to the B46 version?
>
>The  most important change is the increment of the version number. (changes are
>tiny, some fine-tuning).
>
>Seriously, I think that version B.45 would also do better against Crafty at
>longer time controls. I guess, that the improvement, which you seem to observe,
>is due to 2 reasons:
>1st: you changed time control (Comet is generally bad at short times, believe it
>or not)


I do not believe it.

I remember that Comet on 486 could beat palm tiger so it suggest that it is not
really bad at short time control.

Comet had a significant hardware advantage but there are not a lot of chess
programs that can beat palm tiger on 486.

Uri



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