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Subject: To James T. Walker

Author: Charles Worthington

Date: 16:31:01 02/18/03

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On February 18, 2003 at 18:14:37, James T. Walker wrote:

>On February 18, 2003 at 14:54:48, Charles Worthington wrote:
>
>>I agree Michael. The engine making the decision hasn't a clue. And the
>>performance will only be as strong as the strongest engine in the decision
>>making process and then when you take into account that they are all sharing the
>>resources of a single system the idea seems unfeasable in all but the longest og
>>games.
>
>This is an interesting topic and I did a small amout of testing of the triple
>brain when I got my first Shredder.  Nothing spectacular came of it but the
>problem was that I didn't have any good engines as a second engine to Shredder.
>If the two engines are running at say half speed then they only lose about 50-60
>Elo points I guess.  Seems to me that if one can prevent the other from making a
>big mistake then it might be helpful.  How much I don't know but some testing
>needs to be done in this area.  Like maybe one engine with null move and one
>without?  The availability of Ruffian and a few other nice programs might make
>some new test worthwhile.
>Jim




That is an interesting point that you make Jim and is certainly worthy of
consideration.



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