Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 10:53:37 02/18/03
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On February 18, 2003 at 13:41:22, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 18, 2003 at 13:24:12, Charles Worthington wrote: > >>On February 18, 2003 at 13:20:52, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>I read a lot of bad remarks about the Deep Junior team using the Backup computer >>>to analyze a position, but doesn't the triple brain concept in shredder 7 fall >>>under the same category as using a bakup computer? >>> >>>Triple Brain = This is a revulutionary new concepttion which allows you to use >>>two different engines in parallel, with a special module analysing the results >>>and deciding which Engine to follow the current position. >>> >>>Pichard >> >>Interesting I hve never tried to use that option on Shredder because I always >>assumed that running 3 engines at once would divide system resources between the >>three and result in weaker performance. > >1)You forget that >only 2 engines are practically running. > >The engine that decides between the engines use less than 0.1% of the time. > >2)I do not see why do you assume that it is obvious that the result is going to >be weaker performance. > >Choosing the best out of 2 weaker player can lead to better result than the best >player. > >I think that this idea has more chances to be good at long time control and not >blitz. > >Uri Unfortunately triple brain (the engine which has to decide which move to make) has only vague conceptions what the best move (if it exists) could be. The idea is interesting, but leads to worse results so far. I think SMK had not worked to improve Triple Brain since Shredder 6.
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