Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:59:20 07/17/02
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On July 17, 2002 at 08:55:15, Uri Blass wrote: >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? I analyzed the position after 1.e4 c6 2.d4 by the chessbase version of exchess3.11 Exchess cannot find the move f6 even at depth 1. New game - Deep Fritz rnbqkbnr/pp1ppppp/2p5/8/3PP3/8/PPP2PPP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq d3 0 1 Analysis by EXchess 3.11: 2...d5 ² (0.49) Depth: 1 00:00:00 2...d5 ² (0.49) Depth: 1 00:00:00 2...d5 3.Nc3 ² (0.67) Depth: 2 00:00:00 2...d5 3.Nc3 ² (0.67) Depth: 2 00:00:00 2...d5 3.Nc3 e6 ² (0.49) Depth: 3 00:00:00 2...d5 3.Nc3 e6 ² (0.49) Depth: 3 00:00:00 2...d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bd3 ² (0.56) Depth: 4 00:00:00 1kN 2...d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bd3 ² (0.56) Depth: 4 00:00:00 2kN 2...d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bb5+ Nd7 ² (0.45) Depth: 5 00:00:00 5kN 2...Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bd3 ² (0.38) Depth: 5 00:00:00 11kN 2...Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bd3 ² (0.38) Depth: 5 00:00:00 12kN 2...Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bd3 e6 5.Nf3 ² (0.56) Depth: 6 00:00:00 24kN 2...Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bd3 e6 5.Nf3 ² (0.56) Depth: 6 00:00:00 39kN 2...Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.exd5 cxd5 5.Bb5+ Nbd7 ² (0.45) Depth: 7 00:00:00 63kN 2...d5 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bd3 ² (0.40) Depth: 7 00:00:00 103kN 2...d5 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bd3 ² (0.40) Depth: 7 00:00:00 120kN 2...d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.exd5 cxd5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bb5 ² (0.42) Depth: 8 00:00:01 235kN 2...d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.exd5 cxd5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bb5 ² (0.42) Depth: 8 00:00:01 301kN 2...d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Nf3 e6 6.Bg5 Be7 ² (0.32) Depth: 9 00:00:02 540kN 2...d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Nf3 e6 6.Bg5 Be7 ² (0.32) Depth: 9 00:00:02 654kN 2...d5 3.Nc3 e6 4.exd5 exd5 5.Bd3 Bd6 6.Nf3 Qe7+ 7.Be3 ² (0.35) Depth: 10 00:00:05 1580kN 2...d5 3.Nc3 e6 4.exd5 exd5 5.Bd3 Bd6 6.Nf3 Qe7+ 7.Be3 ² (0.35) Depth: 10 00:00:07 2188kN (Blass, Tel-aviv 17.07.2002) Uri
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