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Subject: Re: Anti-human programs as completely separate entities

Author: Mike S.

Date: 13:50:57 10/11/02

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On October 11, 2002 at 16:37:18, Roy Eassa wrote:

>Here's just one possibility:
>
>When first invoked, Fritz 7 calculates the speed of your computer.  If it is 400
>MHz or below, Fritz works as it does today.  But for every 100 MHz above 400,
>Fritz enables more and more (and more and more as speed increases) "knowledge".
>So if it's 5000 MHz, the knowlege is vastly higher than if it's 400 MHz, but the
>search is no deeper (because it already searches deep enough to punish human
>tactical oversights).

This sounds interesting... IOW, the engine would maintain a certain time/depth
ratio independant from the cpu (above 400 or whatever MHz), but with more
knowledge on faster computers.

Thy idea could even be applied to the *time controls* (on the same computer,
maybe another quicker one): up to i.e. 30 secs./move, increase depth as usual,
then at longer time controls maintain that depth and increase the knowledge used
instead.

Seems to be a very reasonable approach, at least to be tried by a programmer.
Could probably be tested against GMs on ICC or FICS, although probably only in
blitz most often.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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