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Subject: Re: Hmm . . . is Junior5 not good enough??

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 20:31:18 10/19/98

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On October 18, 1998 at 05:51:42, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On October 18, 1998 at 00:34:21, blass uri wrote:
>
>>can cstal find better move if it have more time?
>>The game that cstalblack won Junior5  was played in 40/2 hours and not in 40/40.
>
>All programs can find better moves with more time and faster processors, not
>only CST. Will CST improve from extra time more than Junior 5? I wonder. Maybe.
>But not enough to change results by much. 40/40 on a PII-400 is no blitz.
>
>>Does cstal use a small part of the regular time in the opening moves or play
>>without thinking in the opening?
>
>CST's book is on CD and plays the openings instantly.
>
>>In your games I saw 3 seconds per move but I do not know if it is because it
>>thinks in the opening or because it needs time to read the moves from the cd
>
>These 2 or 3 seconds are auto232 delay. Junior will register the 3 seconds it
>takes to receive CST's move, but CST will count 0 seconds.
>
>Enrique
>
>>Uri

If this is the case you would have to accept that each program's clock counts as
the official time, the same as the Hergott-Hiarcs match. Does the SSDF do this?
--
Komputer Korner



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