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Subject: Re: North American Open 2003.

Author: Nicolas GUIBERT

Date: 02:56:52 07/17/02

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>After reading the posts of others, I think that one thing should be made clear.
>I think you should decide what kind of tournament this is going to be, then
>develop the rest of it around it. For example, if it was going to be a "world
>championship", then (IMO) the goal is to determine the best engine in the world.
>If that is your goal, I would expect longer time controls...

NO NO NO

If you want to try and determine the best engine, do not play at longer time
controls !!!!!!

BUT... Do play a lot more games with shorter time controls.

Then you will get a more reliable result !

I have never understood why computer chess competitions are so slow. For human
players, this is understandable. For computers, it is just nonsense. I believe
that this has to do with history. The first competitions had to be played slowly
because the computers were terribly bad at Chess (low depths)... But that was 20
years ago ! Computer science evolved quite a bit since then.

Do you like playing random tournaments or do you really want to get an accurate
picture of the computer chess landscape ?




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