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Subject: Re: Trade off in strength for blitz vs Srandard concerning Ferret??

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 19:59:29 08/07/98

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On August 07, 1998 at 15:48:43, Shaun Graham wrote:

>  Ferret at it's best had an astonishing 3129 blitz rating on ICC(it has a high
>standard rating as well)!  I'm just wondering about this question because of the
>upcoming match with Marovic.

Don't draw too many conclusions from high ICC ratings.

>Ed Shroeder mentioned that this match "would" tell
>us something more about how far programs are, for this to be the case it would
>seem necessary for ferret to be a top standard computer player.  Is it?

I'll have what I hope is my best version there, running on a 533 mhz Alpha,
which I believe is comparable in speed to the same program running on a 400 mhz
Pentium II.

The honest truth is that nobody knows what will happen at 40 in 2 hours,
including me.

bruce



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