Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:55:15 07/17/02
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On July 17, 2002 at 06:27:20, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 17, 2002 at 05:56:52, Nicolas GUIBERT wrote: > >> >>>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 ? > >Absolutely. The biggest problem (as I see it) is the quality of the games with >the longer time controls. After all, we won't see any brilliancies like these >at G/90 or slower on fast hardware: > >[Event "Computer chess game"] >[Site "DANNFAST"] >[Date "2001.07.28"] >[Round "2"] >[White "Beowulf-16b"] >[Black "ExChess-311"] >[Result "1-0"] >[ECO "B12a"] >[Variation "Caro-Kann: 2.d4"] >[TimeControl "15"] > >1. e4 c6 2. d4 f6 3. f4 h6 4. Qh5+ g6 5. Qxg6# 1-0 Does exchess play 2...f6 after 1.e4 c6 2.d4? It seems strange to me. If that game happened then it seems that Exchess-311 have a big bug because chess programs without bugs cannot play so weak 2...f6 and 3...h6 are not going to be played even at 0.1 second per move unless the program has a serious bug. Uri
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