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Subject: Re: Fritz8 at 2 sec a move would beat 99% of the players here?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:14:19 08/19/03

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On August 18, 2003 at 16:50:04, Andrea Griffini wrote:

>Hmmm...
>
>I think that if a currently strong chess program has to play
>2 secs/move against a human at regular time and *being allowed
>to ponder* then using a multi-reply pondering approach (i mean
>not just ponder on the next move of last PV) I would say that
>the number of humans able to win is much less than 0.01% of
>the total number of chess players.

I considered the commercial engines of today.

Of course if you change them to ponder on more than one move the situation may
be even worse for humans but the discussion is not about this hypotetical case.

I think that except aristarch there are no engines that ponder on more than one
move and I thought about Fritz and not about aristarch.

Uri



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