Author: andrew tanner
Date: 10:39:22 05/15/03
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A few years back I ran a computer account on chessnet using a slow 266mhz machine and crafty versus much faster machines with crafty with more hash size etc.. I was able to draw and win a considerable number of games. To the surprise of one opponent who operates a computer hardware business, my crafty beat his beefed-up machine something like 3 times in a row with a bunch of draws. He told me that this simply shouldn't happen given the fact that my machine was something like 1 ghz slower and with much less ram (64mb). the secret that I had discovered was that you can issue commands to the engine to control time-management yourself through a winboard trick. I was waiting for the engine to play into a critical position then issuing a SD command (search depth) where I gave it a huge portion of time to find a deeper move than it's normal depth of around 8. If It looked like it was spending too much time getting to depth 10 or even 11 I would force it to move. This strategy works well in blitz games and I wonder if it's used on ICC in those comp-comp wars they have over there.
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