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

Author: Shaun Graham

Date: 21:19:15 08/07/98

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On August 07, 1998 at 22:59:29, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>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.
>

I wasn't drawing any conclusions :), i was asking you to draw them, then tell me
what you came up with:).  I was just mainly interested in finding out if there
is some sort of possible trade off when it comes to being great at blitz, and
playing standard.   If so to find out possibly some sort of description of where
or why that trade off would occur.

>>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.

What?  I'm on the phone to Kenny kingston and Dion Warwick's psychic friends
hotline right now!  I'll get back with you on what they say, :)hehe.
>
Shaun



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