Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:38:34 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? > >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. Try playing a big raft of games at game in 15 seconds. Did you notice the time control? ;-)
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